Topic: usb keyboard passwd entry

[kadybee]

For specific reasons, I am having to load SME6.0 on a machine (DELL) that only has USB keyboard ports.

The USB Keyboard works fine until you are asked to enter an administrator password in the post install process (sme7 installs and gets through this process OK - 6.0 and 6.5 don't).

Before I start hacking at the disk level, does anyone have any suggestions to get around this?


Thanks

Klaus

[cactus]

For specific reasons, I am having to load SME6.0 on a machine (DELL) that only has USB keyboard ports.

The USB Keyboard works fine until you are asked to enter an administrator password in the post install process (sme7 installs and gets through this process OK - 6.0 and 6.5 don't).

Before I start hacking at the disk level, does anyone have any suggestions to get around this?

Is it perhaps the keyboard layout that differs from us based layouts? BTW Why are you still running SME 6.0, what pressing reason can there be? Most contribs have been rewritten or are available already in SME Server 7? Or has it to do with hardware?

[kadybee]

Thanks for the suggestion - I did just manage to fix it though - tried all of the USB ports, out of 8, finally got one to see the keyboard!

Why 6, you ask?  Because this is going to a location where dialup is difficult and costly and needs to connect/disconnect in a timely manner. 

After a week of trying to get diald/ppp to act as expected in SME7, I have given up!  After some tweaking of the diald.filter I managed to get it to connect correctly on demand, but couldn't get it to disconnect!  SME6 is doing that fine and I have created a Bug report for 7.