Jon,
Your suggestion worked. I dug up a PS/2-to-USB adapter**, hooked up the
mouse and keyboard to the docking station's USB port and let 'er rip. The
laptop booted without a hitch & I'm good to go.
Looks like PS/2 may be on the deprecation trail.
Thanks.
Jon
** Sabrent USB to 2-Port PS/2 Splitter Cable Converter
<http://tinyurl.com/nde3v>
On 28 Apr 2011 at 14:57, jon wrote:
> Hi
>
> From my experience with a number of linux distributions my PS/2
> keyboard on my desktop computer did not work with some of them.
> It did not work with one version of ubuntu and opensuse, but it did
> work with arch linux. I now use a usb keyboard, so i cannot provide
> any further feedback.
>
> Jon