Hello, I have a Dell Latitude D610 laptop parked in a Dell D-Dock PD01X docking station. My mouse and keyboard, both PS/2, are connected to the docking station, as is my monitor.
I'm attempting to install SL6 to dual-boot with WinXP SP3. Everything goes along just fine until the initial reboot. When the "just a few more things to configure" screen appears after reboot, the laptop fails to respond to the mouse and keyboard. I have to turn the power off to reboot. If I un-dock the laptop, I can install SL6. But once I dock the laptop, it ignores the mouse and keyboard on boot. The docking station works just fine with WinXP and everything worked OK with SL5x. I received this reply on ScientificLinuxForum.org: > I am not sure if these packages are needed for docking but do provide > some bios functions for Dell and pulls in standard inventory modules > applicable to most Dell systems: firmware-addon-dell and > smbios-utils-python. Might be worth a try if you don't have them > installed. I've take a brief look at the Dell Linux repository and I'm not sure their packages are applicable to 32-bit SL6. Any suggestion on how to proceed would be appreciated. -- Jon Ruth Kent, Ohio, U.S.A.
