I wouldn't be saying this if it wasn't for the new LiveCD based installation, (which in fact I never layed an eye on), since most people find Gentoo to be too complicated to install.
Get Gentoo (www.gentoo.org). Try the LiveCD (http://bouncer.gentoo.org/?product=gentoo-2006.0-livecd&os=x86). If I had to guess, I would say your keyboard will get detected straight away. You'll get to see that even before installing it. ps: quite unlikely that linux 2.4 will help you in a better way than 2.6, specially if the subject is USB. On 3/14/06, Simon Males <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Evening slugs, > > I'm in a bit of bind, in attempting to install Linux on a laptop > (prior > installation was Mandrake 9), I have come to the conclusion that that > the 2.6 kernel will not play nicely with it. Specifically is has a USB > keyboard which I believe is not abiding by some USB standard. > > The closest thing to a maintained 2.4 kernel distribution I've found is > Debian Sarge. Fedora 3 would be of being the preferred choice, but no > luck in finding any prebuilt 2.4 kernels. Ubuntu has had nothing but 2.6 > kernels, but I see Dapper has 2.4 kernel in its universe repository but > I do not know if that is going to be available when it goes Gold. > > I haven't had any further distribution experience of late, so treading > on new ground. > > -- > Simon Males <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > -- Julio C. Ody http://rootshell.be/~julioody -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
