Hi,

if you have more than one line starting "alias usb-controller" in 
/etc/modprobe.conf, try changing the order of those.

I'm not sure it helps in your case, but it fixes a problem we have here
with a certain hardware under SL3.

Good luck,
	Stephan

On Wed, 19 Apr 2006, Sonali Tamhankar wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I am having trouble installing scientific linux on a Sun w2100z
> machine, and I am wondering if anyone has successfully installed it on
> this machine.
> 
> The version is 4.2, downloaded from scientificlinux.org. The machine
> is an x86 dual processor machine with a usb mouse and keyboard. I went
> through the four installation CDs using keyboard and mouse, and got to
> the "Congratulations! Installation successfully completed" screen.
> After I removed the last CD and rebooted, the keyboard and mouse are
> completely unresponsive. I cannot finish the installation.
> 
> I have used this keyboard and mouse before with the same machine, when
> it had solaris 10 on it. Even now, I can go to the BIOS set-up, for
> example, and navigate with the keyboard. It is when the operating
> system tries to talk directly to the keyboard and mouse that it does
> not work. The BIOS for the w2100z does not have a legacy keyboard/usb
> legacy keyboard option that I could toggle. I am told this machine
> cannot pretend to be have legacy mouse and keyboard, the operating
> system needs to have usb drivers for the mouse and keyboard.
> 
> I googled to find some info on the problem, and discovered someone had
> a similar problem with w2100z and freeBSD, and resolved it only by
> modifying the kernel. I learnt from this source that the usb
> controller may not be working with the operating system, whatever that
> means.
> 
> Any ideas, anyone? I could install red hat on this machine, a version
> of redhat is supported by Sun, so I should be able to install it.
> However, I would _really_ like to have scientific linux.
> 
> Thanks a lot!
> 
> Best,
> - Sonali.
> 

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