On Sunday 12 Apr 2015 08:58:44 Tim wrote:
> 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....)
>
> 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.
I presume that the KVM is used to connect the K/B & mouse to two or more PCs,
so you don't want to permanently connect the K/B to the PS2 connector on this
PC? A compromise would be to have the adaptor connected permanently but
unused and swap the K/B USB connector to it for boot up only. At least then
you won't have to keep an old K/B laying around.
I'm not convinced there is a way to fully initialise the PCI card in the BIOS.
I suspect that the BIOS is recognising it (but only as a PCI Card). It will
only function as a USB adaptor when the OS loads the driver (as a kernel
module in the Linux case).
Maybe someone else knows of a way...
> (second reply 1st bounced?)
I'm not sure why that happened. Maybe my hosing provider had a glitch.
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