Mac mini install w/ latest ISO => dead keyboard at sysinstall

[Peter Edwards]

On 5/25/05, Peter Grehan <grehan at freebsd.org> wrote:
> > Ok, it's hung by the time it gets to mountroot>: Particularly
> > interesting is the fact that it seems to detect 2 USB keyboards and 2
> > mice (there's only one plugged in: the keyboard to the back of the
> > mini, and the mouse into the hub on the keyboard.)
>   ...
> > ukbd0 and ums0 both report as
> > vendor 0x05ac, product 0x1000, rev 10/15.38, addr 2, iclass 3/1 (I'm
> > no USB guru, but two devices at the same address? Looks like it's
> > confusing the hub for a shadow of the devices plugged in.)
> 
>   This problem has shown up on portables before, but I think I've just
> realised what it is:
> 
>   If you have Bluetooth, there is a 'fake' OHCI port and devices created
> that can be used to access a wireless kbd/mouse.
> 
>   Problem is, it gets probed before the fixed kbd/mouse and is first in
> line to syscons. To get around this, the PCI slot associated with the
> problematic ohci2 can be disabled at the loader prompt
> 
> OK set hint.pcib.1.skipslot=26
> 
>   Now, if you *do* have a b/tooth kbd/mouse this OHCI emulation could be
> useful, except that it isn't going to co-exist too well with the FreeBSD
> b/t stack :(
> 
> later,
> 
> Peter.
> 

Excellent! Keyboard works perfectly with hint in place.