Hello,
I am about to install 12.3 on my system (moving up from 12.1), and am wondering if I can do the install with a wireless keyboard (DiNovo), or if I need to dig out my old usb keyboard and mouse. I want to avoid getting stalled out in the install due to lack of keyboard and mouse… Searched this forum for wireless keyboard, but found nothing on install.
Thanks – Roger
The real question is, just how standard is this wireless keyboard? We have already seen where one particular one by Logitech does not work in Linux until it is configured once in Windows. I have had wireless keyboards that did not want to work with my keyboard/monitor switcher and on a few occasions I had them that would not work in my PC BIOS setup. You will not know till you give it a try and ever so often you have to wait a minute or two for it to be found, but in the openSUSE grub2 installer, that is long enough for you to be unable to select installation before it just boots off of your local hard drive by default. If you are unsure if you still have that old keyboard or perhaps you sat something heavy on it, it can’t hurt to dig it out to see if it is an alternative or not. On the other hand, if you can’t select install in the openSUSE installer, I suppose nothing is hurt and then you can go looking for the old keyboard then. I do keep both a PS/2 and USB keyboard in my closet so far though I am thinking of tossing the PS/2 one soon.
Thank You,
Thanks - I’ll go ahead and dig out the keyboard and mouse. Easy enough to avoid the problem entirely on the install and then enable it after the system is up and running.
Thanks again – Roger
On 04/21/2013 09:06 PM, rogerh113 wrote:
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> Thanks - I’ll go ahead and dig out the keyboard and mouse. Easy enough
> to avoid the problem entirely on the install and then enable it after
> the system is up and running.
FWIW, my Logitech wireless combo works perfectly well on Linux.
On Mon, 22 Apr 2013 02:10:06 GMT
Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> wrote:
> On 04/21/2013 09:06 PM, rogerh113 wrote:
> >
> > Thanks - I’ll go ahead and dig out the keyboard and mouse. Easy
> > enough to avoid the problem entirely on the install and then enable
> > it after the system is up and running.
>
> FWIW, my Logitech wireless combo works perfectly well on Linux.
>
Mine too. Also HP worked OK.
I don’t see why you wouldn’t try installing with the wireless keyboard
first. If it doesn’t work, you’d not get very far with the installation
so wouldn’t waste much time before having to dig out the wired keyboard.
–
Graham P Davis, Bracknell, Berks.
openSUSE 12.3 (64-bit); KDE 4.10.00; AMD Phenom II X2 550 Processor;
Kernel: 3.8.8; Video: nVidia GeForce 210 (using nouveau driver);
Sound: ATI SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA); Wireless: BCM4306
There are pretty few problems reported on this (but see jdmcdaniel3 above for a few.
In any case, just put in the DVD and see what happens. When your keyboard and mouse work in the first few steps shown there, you can be pretty sure it is OK. And when they are dead from the beginning, nothing is done to your system, no harm done.
Ooops, already installed with hardwired keyboard and mouse. I have shifted over to the Logitech, and it works just fine with blue tooth. Having a bit of a tussle getting the wireless set up (Intel Centrino dual band). I just spent a bit of time getting the system fully upgraded via ethernet with all downloads, so hopefully whatever was touchy will not longer be a problem. I have not spent much time beating on wireless yet…
Regards – Roger
I am also using Logitech keyboard and mouse. Only problem I had was after the install. I was doing some changes and my wife’s laptop was sitting next to my machine. When I powered my machine down, her system hijacked my keyboard! There I was pounding on my keyboard when I noticed her screen light up. We both got a laugh out of that!
I was advised to use USB 2.0 slots though, and not 3.0.
Bart