USB keyboard in zipslack

2nd Shadow · 06-26-2002, 11:58 PM

HiYa, I just downloaded a copy of zipslack to play with untill a freand of mine can get me a copy os SuSe, but I ran into a little problem. My USB keyboard wont work. I get to the login screen and am forced to reboot. Now I just wanted to know how to get my keyboard working and if it would be possible to do this threw DOS or Windows.

thanx,
Aaron c.
2nd Shadow
PS. I'm running on a HP Pavillian PC and have Kernel 2.4.14 (I think)

zLinuxz · 06-28-2002, 03:31 AM

yep, the guaranteed solution is, get a NON-USB keyboard,

USB is a curse!

zLinuxz

NSKL · 06-28-2002, 03:37 AM

Or just temporarily get a normal keyboard, and using it recompile your kernel to have USB support, and full HID support, and that should get your USB keyboard working.
Or maybe just copy a already compiled USB kernel from slackware install cd to your zipslack and pray it had HID keyboard support built in.

Hope that helps
-NSKL

zLinuxz · 06-28-2002, 03:43 AM

that too,

Aussie · 06-28-2002, 11:15 PM

You can download a kernel from the 8.1 tree with usb keyboard/mouse support.

2nd Shadow · 07-01-2002, 02:21 PM

Thanx, I thought about the non-usb Keyboared one wich I can probly get a PS/2 one from friend to get things working.... I think I'm gonna try to get existing kernel like NSKL and Aussie said b/c I have no idea, right now anyway, how to compile a kernal (learning as I go

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