Unresponsive keyboard after a few boots

[Jeremy Chadwick]

On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 02:19:06PM +0530, Rohit Grover wrote:
> I am using a very recent Freebsd 8.0 STABLE on a Macbook. I updated my
> sources and rebuilt a kernel about 3 days ago. I was able to use the
> machine fine once or twice after that. But now the keyboard has
> stopped working. The boot program is able to use the keyboard, but the
> kernel isn't, and I am unable to do anything useful with the machine
> from the login screen.
> 
> I had rebuilt the kernel twice with slightly varying settings, so I
> don't have a copy of the previously working kernel in
> /boot/kernel.old.
> 
> It may not be easy for me to download a ISO image. Can someone please help?

Is the keyboard USB?

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