I acquired my first motherboard that does not have ps/2 keyboard and mouse connectors on it this week. It's a funny thing ... because a keyboard connector seems to be all it doesn't have. It has 6 ide channels, digital audio, firewire and 6 USB ports.
Anyways, usb keyboards don't work that smoothly. If the keyboard emulation is set to 'BIOS' ... you can do things like edit the RAID config (onboard) or a PCI card BIOS config... but the keyboard won't show up at all to FreeBSD.
With the keyboard compatibility set to 'OS' ... FreeBSD sees and uses the keyboard. Two caveat's, however. The boot loader is inaccessible in this mode and if the keyboard is not plugged in on boot, it cannot be plugged in later. The system recognises ukbd0 when it's plugged in, but it doesn't attach to the console. I fear that we'll see more motherboards like this.
Dave.
Can't help much with the motherboar/bios issues, but I have been using an USB keyboard (or rather a USB PS2 keyboard/mouse adapter, Raritan APSUSB) plugged into my Sony Z505 notebook for about 4 years now.
I have to use kbdcontrol to switch control from the builtin to the usb one with the line below
/usr/sbin/kbdcontrol -k /dev/kbd1 </dev/console
You probably need to put a line like that in your usbd.conf. Then the keyboard should work if you plug it in after booting. I suspect you would need to use /dev/kbd0 not kbd1 though.
If the keyboard emulation is set to BIOS, does the keyboard work with the bootloader?
BTW, I think Dmitry meant the make/model of the motherboard, not the keyboard (and I'm curious too).
-stacy
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