keyboard generates no response

I'm trying to get a 2.4-18 kernel installed on my DELL Dimension 8250. When I've chosen the kernel I want (bf24) everything starts up but when I come to the screen explaining what's going to happen I can't use the keyboard to select OK, what's more the num-lock and caps-lock keys don't work. This

Re: keyboard generates no response

#include hallo.h * Jonathan Coe [Mon, Dec 30 2002, 07:43:44PM]: I'm trying to get a 2.4-18 kernel installed on my DELL Dimension 8250. When I've chosen the kernel I want (bf24) everything starts up but when I USB keyboard? that I could build a 2.4 kernel from my working 2.2 kernel, I wondered