So I have given up getting OpenBSD (current) running on this machine. Debian installed just fine so I gathered some information about the hardware and put it at http://tp76.info/stuff/craptop in case anyone wants to have a look and perhaps patch me up so I can try again ;-)
A quick review of the things that I tried and did (if anyone cares): At one point after messing with BIOS settings and plugging in and out USB keyboards, the craptop keyboard suddenly decided to work well enough for me to PXE boot bsd.rd and install over HTTP, but GENERIC would panic on ehci(4) so I had to disable that. Then at "starting network" I got flooded with re(4) PHY-something messages so I had to disable that one too (it worked fine when I installed over HTTP). Got to the login prompt and voila, the keyboard was back to being useless. Ripped out the disk and plugged it into a SATA-to- USB adapter and put iwi(4) firmware onto it and set up hostname.iwi0 hoping I could ssh into the thing and take it from there, but the fw failed to load ... then I went out and got drunk. > On Thu, 3 Jan 2013 21:10:53 +0000 > Miod Vallat <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > So one keypress on 'i' spits out between 5 and 20 'i's depending > > > on how quick I am at the keyboard. Notice above that the boot> > > > prompt works just fine. I hit enter and ... > > > > > > At any prompt except password prompts you can escape .... > > > [...] > > > > > > Choose your keyboard layout ('?' or 'L' for list [default] System > > > hostname? (short form, e.g. 'foo') System hostname? (short form, e.g. > > > 'foo') System hostname? (short form, e.g. 'foo') System hostname? (short > > > form, e.g. 'foo') System hostname? (short form, e.g. 'foo') System > > > hostname? (short form, e.g. 'foo') System hostname? (short form, e.g. > > > 'foo') > > > > This smells like bad edge/level interrupt configuration for the kebyoard > > controller. Are you using a PS/2 or USB keyboard? How is the keyboard > > recognized by OpenBSD? If it's a USB keyboard recognized by the kernel > > as PS/2, you might want to tinker with the `USB legacy keyboard > > emulation' settings in your BIOS. > > Thanks. It's a laptop and is using > > pckbc0 at isa0 port 0x60/5 > pckbd0 at pckbc0 (kbd slot) > pckbc0: using irq 1 for kbd slot > wskbd0 at pckbd0: console keyboard, using wsdisplay0 > > I've tried plugging in a USB keyboard but the behavior is the same. > I.e. fine at boot> and ukc> but not in the installer script *shrugs*
