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From: dsf5454@ritvax.isc.rit.edu
Subject: Re: HELP! 386BSD kbd problem on notebook : -(
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Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1993 16:07:56 GMT
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In article <9309019.27177@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU>, summer@ee.mu.OZ.AU (Mark Summerfield) writes:
>I have just tried to boot the pk-0.2 dist.fs disk on a new 486 notebook
>(of a fairly generic nature).
>
>Everything goes OK until the shell prompt "#", when I find I can't type
>anything (well, I can, but it doesn't recognise the keyboard :-( )
>
>Perhaps I need a different console driver?  If so, is there a site somewhere
>with a suitable dist.fs/fixit.fs image?  Or is the problem something else?
>
>Thanks for any help,
>
>Mark.
>          --------------------------------------------------------
>              Mark Summerfield,  Photonics Research Laboratory
>Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Melbourne  
>                ACSnet[AARN/Internet]: summer@ee.mu.oz[.au] 
>          --------------------------------------------------------
>        The thing about death is that getting there is half the fun!

Hey, I got the same problem, too... anybody got a compiled copy of pk-0.2
dist.fs WITHOUT the console driver? 

--Dan
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