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From: storm@cs.mcgill.ca (Marc Wandschneider)
Subject: Re: Gateway 2000 keyboards
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Date: Mon, 5 Apr 1993 15:12:36 GMT
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In article <C4zCB9.3Hz@bcstec.ca.boeing.com> rjw9917@bcstec.ca.boeing.com (Robert J. Willard) writes:
>I tried to load 386bsd on two Gateway 2000
>local bus machines lately. One was a 486-66
>and the other a 486SX-33. On the SX-33,
>boot occurred, but the keyboard was dead.
>Subsequent boots resulted in a dead keyboard
>about 3 out of four times. Keyboard was dead
>on the 66. I only tried two times. I was able
>to get 386bsd loaded on the SX-33 and am able
>to boot from the hard disk, but still have a
>dead keyboard about 60-75% of the time. Has
>any one else had this problem and is there a fix
>for it?
I just installed 386bsd on a DX2/66 from GW2000 (which wasn't ours
to keep unfortunately ;-() and everything worked fine.
I WAS using the dist.fs-pk-0.2 in unofficial/patch-kit though...
toodlepip!
marc 'em.
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