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<jab>so I am trying to install the hurd on a T510

<jab>Whoever owned this computer before me...did not treat it well. The laptop keyboard's up and enter key do not work. Weirdly enough, I've attached a usb keyboard...that works.

<jab>ethernet works!

<jab>and now the usb keyboard doesn't work....

<damo22>usb keyboard is not yet supported

<damo22>that would require usb stack

<jab>weirdly enough it sort of worked for abit

<etno>It is probably working with the USB "boot" protocol that the BIOS uses to emulate a PS/2 keyboard.

<etno>This is for backwards compatibility with OSes that don't handle USB.

<etno>However, when the OS turns on USB support, the emulation stops

<etno>(I think ... ?)

<damo22>grub has usb keybd support

<damo22>beyond that, hurd does not

<azert>apparently it is possible to load netbsd binary modules in rump kernels

<azert> https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/netbsd_binary_kernel_modules_usable

<azert>without need to rumpify them or even compile them

<azert>on Linux

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