On Saturday 11 Apr 2015 21:49:50 Tim wrote:
> I have an old PC where the on-board USB ports are both dead. I have
> fitted a PCI usb card with 3 USB ports. The PC is connected to a KVM
> which connects to the PC via USB (as well as a VGA connector). The PCI
> USB card works 99% of the time, the 1% it does not is during the grub
> boot up where I get to select the bios, OS or Kernel etc. I guess the
> card has not been initialised as I don't have a working keyboard, I have
> a working keyboard by the time I get to the gui login While this is not
> an issue for 99% of the time it will be an issue if I need to select
> bios or a different OS\kernel\memtest at any time. Other than fitting a
> PS2 keyboard, is there an easy way to over come this issue?
Does the PC have a PS2 connector for the keyboard? If so, you could try
connecting your USB keyboard to the PC using a USB to PS2 adaptor. I still do
this with my machine because when I first set it up the version of Linux I was
using at the time didn't recognise the keyboard if it was plugged straight
into a USB port.
(It will probably work now, but if it ain’t broke....)
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