On 12/04/15 07:56, Terry Coles wrote:
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....)
Hi Terry
The USB that comes from the KVM runs both the keyboard and mouse through
the one plug so I don't know if it will pick up both keyboard and mouse
if I put it through a PS2\USB adaptor. At the end of the day if I get
issue I will just have to connect the PS2 keyboard to the PC, I was
hoping there was a way of getting the USB PCI card initialised earlier.
(second reply 1st bounced?)
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