From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Johannes Erdfelt Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 19:53:59 +0000 Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] USB Support Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Jun 13, 2000, Jonathan_Kwahk@Dell.com wrote: > BIOS builds 47 and 50 (with PAL50) does support SOME USB keyboards. I have > had problems with the Microsoft (real nice one with Explorer keys) keyboard, > but the MS Elite USB keyboard works in the EFI shell. > > I believe it's somewhat hardware/BIOS for the incompatibility. Could be. The BIOS is most likely using the HID boot protocol which is minimal enough that fixing any problems shouldn't be too difficult. > TurboLinux 0505 build does NOT support USB keyboards with the installer. Ahh. My 0406 and 0505 build systems have USB support with one of the keyboard drivers. I thought they used the same kernel to install as they did after the install. > RedHat's latest build hasn't been tested by me, yet. Nor here. JE