keyboard does not work in kernel space

[Anders Nordby]

Hi,

It's a known problem. I reported it to Maksim Yevmenkin (author of kbdmux),
who confirmed it.

Workaround is to disable GEOM_ELI in your kernel, make sure you don't
load it in loader.conf either, and instead add the disk/slice you want
to attach to in geli_devices in /etc/rc.conf. Then you'll be asked to
enter the passphrase from userland, which will be fine.

On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 06:41:17PM +0200, Sebastiaan van Erk wrote:
> I just got a new Inspiron 9400 laptop and was trying to do full disk 
> encryption with GEOM ELI. Everything seems to be working fine now, 
> except that the keyboard does not seem to work in kernel space so that 
> when my USB boot stick asks me for the passphrase of my internal hard 
> drive, I cannot enter anything. I know this is not specific to GEOM ELI, 
> since I was messing around with my USB pendrive and forgot to specify a 
> root device, which the kernel prompted me for the root device and I had 
> exactly the same problem: the keyboard did not work.
> 
> When I change the root device to my pen drive it boots to the login 
> prompt (user space), and the keyboard works fine at that moment.
> 
> Is this problem familiar to anybody? Is there any way to solve it?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Sebastiaan
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-- 
Anders.