I've done some googling and found a few posts which seemed to indicate that udpcast shouldn't have problems working with a usb keyboard. Nonetheless, when I boot a pc from the cd or pxe, the keyboard does not work. Where should I start in troubleshooting this problem? I am very much a linux noob, but if someone can get me started, I believe I can stumble my way through it. Thanks.
Chad
I finally figured out the problem. Thanks to all those who responded. In case you're in the same boat, here are the details:
After discovering the cast-o-matic tool (absolutely brilliant), I got the idea to put in some modprobe commands in the "commands to be executed before the udpcast menu" box on the second cast-o-matic page. I put in the following commands:
modprobe uhci-hcd modprobe ohci-hcd modprobe usbkbd
I'm not sure which or if all of them fixed the problem, but I was then able to use the keyboard when booting udpcast.
So far the software has worked great! goodbye zenworks, hello udpcast.
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Chad Brogan echadwickb@gmail.com Date: Oct 30, 2006 1:25 PM Subject: optiplex 745 and keyboard problems To: udpcast@udpcast.linux.lu
I've done some googling and found a few posts which seemed to indicate that udpcast shouldn't have problems working with a usb keyboard. Nonetheless, when I boot a pc from the cd or pxe, the keyboard does not work. Where should I start in troubleshooting this problem? I am very much a linux noob, but if someone can get me started, I believe I can stumble my way through it. Thanks.
Chad
Chad Brogan wrote:
I finally figured out the problem. Thanks to all those who responded. In case you're in the same boat, here are the details:
After discovering the cast-o-matic tool (absolutely brilliant), I got the idea to put in some modprobe commands in the "commands to be executed before the udpcast menu" box on the second cast-o-matic page. I put in the following commands:
modprobe uhci-hcd modprobe ohci-hcd modprobe usbkbd
I'm not sure which or if all of them fixed the problem, but I was then able to use the keyboard when booting udpcast.
These instructions are now in the udpcast start scripts, so it should work automagically now.
So far the software has worked great! goodbye zenworks, hello udpcast.
Thanks for the enthusiasm ;-)
Alain