Glad that somebody else broached this topic, I was about to ask the same question.
I can't get ANY USB keyboard to work with OpenBSD on my desktop computer (a very standard Athlon 32). When I say it "doesn't work", I mean it's completely dead, as if the keyboard wasn't even attached to the machine. That's true if I boot directly from the OpenBSD CD, or boot from the hard drive. Although the OS cannot see a USB keyboard, I tested it with a (borrowed) PS/2 keyboard and there's no problem there. Before someone says "well just buy a PS/2 keyboard" - OK, I can do that, but I've got some concern that further down the road I may have a machine with lacks a PS/2 connector, since USB-only is becoming common (especially on laptops). Interestingly, it's not just OpenBSD that has this issue - USB the keyboard suffers total non-response with FreeBSD and NetBSD too. But the same keyboard works fine with Linux on the same machine. I did quite a bit of Googling for answers and found numerous suggestions (mostly for FreeBSD) all of which I tried, but none worked. best regards, Robert On Saturday 27 August 2005 09:02 pm, you wrote: > Hi, > > I want to use a sunblade 100 with openbsd as my primary desktop. > Unfortunately I'm not able to get the keyboard to work (sun usb type 6 > swedish layout). > After installing the miniroot.fs to the harddisk and resetting the > machine it > booted to the prompt where one can choose between shell, upgrade and > install. > I wasn't able to type anything here. I then installed over a serial line > and it worked fine. > After rebooting with the keyboard attached it booted to the login prompt > but still > I was not able to type anyhting here. Login over the network just works > fine. > I also can find the keyboard within the dmesg output. The eeprom command > shows keyboard > as input-device. The same behaviour can be seen with the 3.7 release and > the latest snapshot. > My OpenBoot version is 4.17.1. I'm new to openbsd maybe I'm missing > something obvious here. > > Thanks in advance, > > mark
