Re: User password trouble - SOLVED -

2010-07-19 Thread birger
On Sat, 2010-07-17 at 12:32 -0400, Bob Goodwin wrote: > > The keyboard has failed! > > Typing the password characters after the root prompt shows one key > does nothing, not even a blank space! :-D I got bitten by the same problem. Too bad I didn't see this thread earlier. I had cha

Re: User password trouble - SOLVED -

2010-07-18 Thread Tim
On Sat, 2010-07-17 at 12:32 -0400, Bob Goodwin wrote: > Mystery solved! > > The keyboard has failed! > > Typing the password characters after the root prompt shows one key > does nothing, not even a blank space! Yes, I've been caught by that, before. It's even more of a proble

Re: User password trouble - SOLVED -

2010-07-17 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 17/07/10 12:23, Bob Goodwin wrote: > >I used my F-12 computer to configure a new wireless router >yesterday. I disconnected the computer from the LAN and > connecteddirectly to an Ethernet port on the router so there > was no external >access to the system