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Bug #816

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USB Keyboard Detection - Boot Hangs

Added by Tim Nelson almost 14 years ago. Updated about 12 years ago.

Status:
Closed
Priority:
Very Low
Assignee:
-
Category:
Operating System
Target version:
-
Start date:
08/10/2010
Due date:
% Done:

0%

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Plus Target Version:
Release Notes:
Affected Version:
2.0
Affected Architecture:

Description

I'm having issues with booting a system with a USB keyboard. The keyboard works perfectly fine, but when pfSense attempts to initialize all devices, there are problems and the system hangs:

Starting device manager (devd)...kbdcontrol: cannot open /dev/ukbd0: Device busy

I've tried multiple keyboards, with and without using a KVM, and the result is the same.

I've also tried booting without a keyboard altogether but then the error message is 'No such file or directory' instead of 'Device busy'.

The board being booted has no PS/2 ports, USB only. There is no 'legacy' option in the BIOS.

A similar problem is noted here: http://old.nabble.com/ukbd-probe-order-regression-td27433764.html Apparently there is a regression in ukbd.c from prior versions? They reference a patch that could fix the problem. Maybe this can be included in pfSense for those users without legacy ports?

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