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Author Re: USB Keyboard/Mouse disapears after rhel3 install on dell optiplex
Jonathan

2006-09-22, 7:27 pm

For anyone who's interested I got this sorted by patching RHEL3 from
Update 1 to Update 8!

jonathan@hipkiss.org wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've been installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 on our Dell Optiplex
> GX620s and after getting over the SATA drive problem (had to go into
> the BIOS and switch the SATA drive to "Combined" mode to offer legacy
> support) the installation worked fine.
>
> Bear in mind these machines only have usb, then don't have ps2 ports
> for a mouse or keyboard.
>
> Now, when I reboot, the mouse and/or keyboard dont work, if I move them
> around into different usb ports then I can get them working and all is
> fine until the next reboot when I have to move them again to find the
> usb port that they'll work on!!!
>
> I've looked in the BIOS and there appears to be no ps2 mode or usb
> legacy emulation or anything that might affect this.
>
> Anybody have any ideas, I've got 5 pcs to get this going on and my
> organisation wont allow us to upgrade to rhel4.
>
> Thanks
>
> Jonathan
>

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