Thanks. Tried unplugging/plugging, changing ports, other keyboards; still nothing. Will try looking at the logs when I'm back at the machine -- that is a good thought that just hadn't occurred to me. On 10/10/23 14:39, Aurelian Melinte via talk wrote:
Try unplugging the keyboard then plug it back in. If it is USB, try changing the port. Try another keyboard. Try booting an USB stick with some other live distro then peek into the Arch logs.
On 10/10/2023 14:29, Peter King via talk wrote:
The saga continues.
While waiting for a replacement motherboard for my Lenovo T5, I hauled out a computer I had taken out of service about 16 months ago to have a working machine until I finally can install the motherboard. But here's the thing. When it boots up, I can use the keyboard and mouse at the BIOS screen and through most of the process -- but near the end, after enabling the network fails, it loses the keyboard. The mouse stays connected. So I get a login screen but no way to talk to it. Same problem using other keyboards. Eventually I figured out how to boot from a USB stick, and that gets all the way up with the keyboard, so it's something odd in the setup on the computer itself. I haven't tried to ssh in, because at the moment it tries to boot into a static ethernet address which isn't available, and so network connectivity fails.
The system runs Arch Linux. The "easy" thing to do is just re-install Arch and start with a clean slate, which is likely what I'll do, but if anyone knows a quick and dirty fix I'd at least be able to save some configuration information from the computer. (Yes, I can do that from an Arch install USB by mounting / chrooting into it, but I'd rather understand the problem first.)
Any idea what gives? Obviously a module for running the keyboard isn't being loaded somewhere...
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