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From: sjh@sys.uea.ac.uk (S.J. Howard)
Subject: KEYBOARD disconnected: RECONNECT  (Help!)
Message-ID: <sjh.737403000@radon.sys.uea.ac.uk>
Summary: 386bsd says no keyboard, but it's wrong!
Keywords: 386bsd DOS5.0 keyboard error
Sender: news@sys.uea.ac.uk
Organization: University of East Anglia
Date: Fri, 14 May 1993 18:10:00 GMT
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Hello everyone, I have this rather annoying problem. As the heading says
bsd is telling me on boot up that the keyboard is disconnected, but it is
definately there. 

	I have a 200 Mb hard drive partitioned into 100 Meg Dos 5.0 and
100 Meg 386bsd. POST and dos have no problems with the keyboard, everything
works fine, but the last time I booted into bsd I got this strange error.
I thought it might be a corrupt kernel, or other file so I tried the dist
and fix-it disks but they both gave the same problem.

	The keyboard is a 102 key UK keyboard (so I was doing some mental 
key remapping to use it) and the motherboard is a 386sx-33, straight from
Tywan (Partner, I think) but since it used to work I don't think it it a 
physical conflict. My current worry is that one or other is having problems
and bsd is fickle enough to pick them up early.

	Any advice of suggestions would be greatly appreciated.


sjh@sys.uea.ac.uk