[ale] H/W Q: Fedora-C3 and Dell's USB keyboard & mouse, SATA drives

Geoffrey esoteric at 3times25.net
Wed Mar 30 10:52:31 EST 2005


Mike Murphy wrote:
> on my optiplex 280 (also SATA and USB), I had to tell the kernel to load 
> USB so I could use a usb keyboard and mouse. I added "alias 
> usb-controller usb-uhci" to the kernel params and the keyboard and mouse 
> work fine, and early enough in the boot process.
> 
> Of course, once the system was loaded, I couldn't do this. I had to add 
> the param when the installer gave me the option (but interestingly, I 
> never had trouble getting the keyboard to work when booted from the cds).

One other thing about usb mouse/keyboards, check your bios, I know of at 
least one machine I have that has an option to enable a usb 
(mouse|keyboard) (can't recall which it was)..

-- 
Until later, Geoffrey



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