On Sunday August 20 2006 8:33 am, Tom Horsley wrote: > The motherboard BIOS never seems to have a problem seeing the > keyboard via the hub so something about the linux usb > bootstrapping must have some kind of timing problem. > Grrr.... My day job is to manage about 50 Windows machines in a software company. Don't think that it's a Linux-only problem. I've wasted a lot of time on this particular problem. There's not much rhyme or reason to it - sometimes USB works, and sometimes it doesn't, in many different scenarios, not just the one you're describing. I've gone through many different theories, but I don't have a definitive answer - the protocol is imperfect, the manufacturers have imperfectly implemented it - those are the two I tend to suspect now. If the powered hub didn't fix it, I'd say you're going to have to live with it, or go with a PS2 solution. I keep several PS2 keyboards around our facility for this very reason. Things are improving, and USB has gotten a lot better, but I still encounter the occasional problem on new equipment. That's been my experience - I hope someone comes up with a definitive solution and proves me wrong. -- Claude Jones Brunswick, MD, USA
