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az7

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Registered: 2008-07-24

Posts: 5

[SOLVED]Unable to input LUKS disk encryption passphrase using USB keyb

Hi,
  I just got a new usb keyboard to replace my aging ps/2 monster.  I'm using LUKS disk encryption with a passphrase.  I'm able to key in my passphrase using the old ps/2 keyboard however, the new usb keyboard will not accept any input.  The usb keyboard works fine in grub and after booting into arch.  Anybody have any ideas?  Thanks.

lsusb:

Bus 002 Device 005: ID 0bda:8187 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. 
Bus 002 Device 004: ID 046d:0990 Logitech, Inc. 
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002  
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 045e:00dd Microsoft Corp. 
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 046d:c01e Logitech, Inc. MX518 Optical Mouse
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001

Last edited by az7 (2009-01-10 03:20:32)

Synchrotron

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From: Kyiv, Ukraine

Registered: 2009-01-08

Posts: 13

Re: [SOLVED]Unable to input LUKS disk encryption passphrase using USB keyb

You should have usbinput hook before encrypt in your /etc/mkinitcpio.conf for this.
Look here: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Mki … _the_HOOKS

az7

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Registered: 2008-07-24

Posts: 5

Re: [SOLVED]Unable to input LUKS disk encryption passphrase using USB keyb

Edited /etc/mkinitcpio.conf to include usbinput in the HOOKS section

HOOKS="base udev autodetect pata scsi sata usb usbinput keymap encrypt filesystems"

Ran

mkinitcpio -g /boot/kernel26.img

Seems to be working great.  Now I can try the cleaning a keyboard in the dishwasher myth.