Jon, Your suggestion worked. I dug up a PS/2-to-USB adapter**, hooked up the mouse and keyboard to the docking station's USB port and let 'er rip. The laptop booted without a hitch & I'm good to go.
Looks like PS/2 may be on the deprecation trail. Thanks. Jon ** Sabrent USB to 2-Port PS/2 Splitter Cable Converter <http://tinyurl.com/nde3v> On 28 Apr 2011 at 14:57, jon wrote: > Hi > > From my experience with a number of linux distributions my PS/2 > keyboard on my desktop computer did not work with some of them. > It did not work with one version of ubuntu and opensuse, but it did > work with arch linux. I now use a usb keyboard, so i cannot provide > any further feedback. > > Jon
