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From: KTSIN@alpha.ntu.ac.sg (Sin Key Teck)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: stuck at main menu
Date: 21 Dec 1996 07:26:53 GMT
Organization: Nanyang Technological University
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Jordan K. Hubbard (jkh@FreeBSD.org) wrote:
: What version of FreeBSD please?  It's quite possible that you've got one
: of those keyboard controllers which certain variants of FreeBSD's
: syscons driver simply didn't like.

2.1.6 and 2.2-ALPHA.

Problem solved. I was using a Win95 compatible keyboard (with 3 extra keys).
It is okay now after I swapped keyboards with an old PC.

Thanks for your help.

kt

: -- 
: - Jordan Hubbard
:   President, FreeBSD Project