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  Re: Prepping to install: a digression tlaronde@polynum.com - 2015-07-14 09:09 +0200
    Re: Prepping to install: a digression "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@hiwaay.net> - 2015-07-14 15:46 -0453
    Re: Prepping to install: a digression tlaronde@polynum.com - 2015-07-14 21:37 +0200

#13034 — Re: Prepping to install: a digression

On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 12:43:57AM +0000, Christos Zoulas wrote:
> In article <55A43D0B.6030208@hiwaay.net>,
> William A. Mahaffey III <wam@hiwaay.net> wrote:
> >[...]
> >
> >Thanks for the reply. I tried the 'boot -a'. It got down to the following:
> >
> >boot device: wd0
> >root device (default wd0a):
> >
> >When I tried to type in 'raid0a', it added 'pckbport_start: command 
> >error' & hung.
> >[...]
> 
> [...] I am wondering why the
> keyboard is not functional for you. Try raidctl -A softroot <device>
> 

I have not followed the thread from the start so this has perhaps been
asked before: is the keyboard USB attached and not PS2? In this case,
from usb(4) add the "flags 1" to the USB protocols in the kernel config:

usb* at ehci? flags 1
usb* at ohci? flags 1
usb* at uhci? flags 1

(I guess this could be limited to the USB 1.0 protocols but who 
knows...)

because :

"Sometimes it is desirable to have a device detected early in the
boot process, e.g., the console keyboard. To achieve this use a flags
value of 1."

FWIW,
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#13040

On 07/14/15 13:46, Michael van Elst wrote:
> wam@hiwaay.net ("William A. Mahaffey III") writes:
>
>> Good thought, however it is a PS2 kbd & mouse. Thanks for your reply &
>> TIA for any new clues.
> If PS2 hardware is detected (even when not really functional),
> it prevents an USB keyboard from becoming the console keyboard.

Hmmmm .... I do have a spare USB kbd laying around, might that get past 
some of the problems so far ? Mind you, when up & running, it will have 
no kbd/mouse/monitor attached by default ....

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#13041

On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 06:39:51PM +0000, Michael van Elst wrote:
> wam@hiwaay.net ("William A. Mahaffey III") writes:
> 
> >Good thought, however it is a PS2 kbd & mouse. Thanks for your reply & 
> >TIA for any new clues.
> 
> If PS2 hardware is detected (even when not really functional),
> it prevents an USB keyboard from becoming the console keyboard.
> 

Does this mean that if a MB has a PS2 combo (one slot for whether a
keyboard or a mouse) and that a mouse is connected to it, one has no 
keyboard at least on console?

That may explain some queer behaviors I had. But, in general, I had
queer behavior with USB devices with NetBSD (not to mention that on a
dual boot node---Windows being the other one---it is impossible to have
a sane boot after running Windows without cold booting; I don't know
what Windows does with the BIOS and the hardware settings, but it 
results in havoc).
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