Keys stop working on old hp Pavilion laptop
 

I am not sure if this is the best place to post this because it could be software, it could be hardware but the distro is installed on a laptop. So I have an old hp Pavilion n5150 on which I had Fedora core 3 running fairly successfully then upgraded to Core 4 at which point I noticed that the the g, h and quotes key as well as backspace were not working. So trying to go to Google I would end up putting in oole.com, or fedora.redat.com, etc. At first I thought it was the notebook, but when I enter the BIOS and use these keys they work fine.

So I did a clean install of Core 4 rather than an upgrade and lo and behold all the keys worked!!! I then was able to get my Netgear MA521 working with ndiswrapper and things were fine for the past 6 weeks or so until yesterday when again I noticed the same keys no longer work. Now I have upgraded the kernel with yum update from 1364 to 1398 but even when I did that the laptop worked fine. Now the only other change I can think of is that I installed the Flash plug-in for Firefox.

Has anyone ever heard of this happening where only a few keys stop working? Any idea what is causing these keys to not work? (btw I am using another PC to post this)

Much thanks in advance

have you tryed changing your keyboard layout?

thought about it...tried it...no luck

Someone else suggested upgrading the driver, but under hardware it says the driver is built-in...so how do I go about upgrading it?

upgrading the kernel ...
but I think Fedora already have a 2.6 kernel series