On Fri, 15 Mar 2013, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Friday 15 March 2013 14:08:40 Alan Stern did opine: > > > On Fri, 15 Mar 2013, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > Greetings; > > > > > > What modules do I need to make builtin in order to have a working > > > keyboard > > > > > when the boot fails when the keyboard/mouse is this: > > The question doesn't make sense. If boot fails, _none_ of the devices > > in the system will work. > > > > Alan Stern > > The keyboard works during the grub screen session before selecting that > freshly built kernel to boot. > > It fails while trying to mount a non-existent /dev/sde, and falls out 30 > seconds later to a busybox shell prompt, it doesn't make sense that I would > have no keyboard then. > > I figured you folks should have the path from: > idVendor 0x045e Microsoft Corp. > idProduct 0x0745 > > to a usable keyboard memorized. > > But then I think logically (for a 78 YO) :) You need to have CONFIG_USB, CONFIG_USB_UHCI_HCD, CONFIG_USB_OHCI_HCD, CONFIG_USB_EHCI_HCD, CONFIG_USB_EHCI_PCI, CONFIG_HID, and CONFIG_USB_HID all set to y. Not all of those HCD entries are needed -- it depends on your hardware -- but you can include them all anyway. Alan Stern -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html