Okay, the apple keyboard I use will work all the way through a install of slackware, but for some reason, during the boot up, it gets killed when the kernel is loading modules, or so it seems. All I know is, it ought to work, since, it works during the install! Any suggestions on how to fix this, I have no access to any other keyboard.

Have you enabled the rc.bluetooth service during the setup?

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No! I'll check it out tho.

You can boot up off the cd then mount your Slackware partition (depending on the drive, it could just be mount /dev/sda1 /mnt. Once that is done, run chmod +x /mnt/etc/rc.d/rc.bluetooth and then reboot. Hopefully your keyboard will work after that.

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I'll give it a try! thanks you!

Did not seem to work, but you (bassmadrigal) asked:

How would I go about doing that, and, why would I need too?

Actually, I did finally get it to work, just now, and it was a permissions issue, I set it to chmod 755 and it did the trick.

Slackware, by default, starts with most services disabled. This allows people to do full installations without it actually slowing anything down or consuming more resources. You just enable the services you need, usually via rc.PROGRAMNAME in /etc/rc.d/. In your case, when booting off the disc, the installer will start the needed services that could be used to install Slackware (network, usb, bluetooth, etc), and once you get to the end of the installer, it asks you what services should be started on boot (with some defaults already selected), however, bluetooth isn't enabled by default, and you'd need to select it. Otherwise, it prevents any bluetooth services from starting up, and in doing so, prevents your keyboard from functioning.