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B-Con

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Registered: 2007-12-17

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USB keyboard (and SSH?) no longer recognized [solved]

I'm not sure what happened, but when I boot to Arch I no longer have access to my USB keyboard. It works fine through Grub until Arch starts booting, at which point nothing I press has any effect (including Ctrl-Alt-Del). I can't get past the command-line prompt, so it's not an X thing.

I can't think of what's changed since the last time I booted. I was messing with my rc.sysinit and inittab, but I saved all my changes in different files and left the originals. Just to be sure, I chroot'd from a liveCD and reinstalled the initscripts package. No effect.

Any ideas what could be wrong? I don't even know where to start. I'm wondering what else might be wrong too, since I can't even SSH into it and I have the SSH daemon listed in rc.conf.

Last edited by B-Con (2009-01-09 11:51:07)

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lilsirecho

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Re: USB keyboard (and SSH?) no longer recognized [solved]

Is your keyboard on a hub?

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schuay

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Re: USB keyboard (and SSH?) no longer recognized [solved]

maybe this is the problem`?

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=61767

(old parameters in modprobe.d/ )

B-Con

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From: USA

Registered: 2007-12-17

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Re: USB keyboard (and SSH?) no longer recognized [solved]

maybe this is the problem`?

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=61767

(old parameters in modprobe.d/ )

That link lead to the answer. I had to load the usbhid module. Thanks.

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