Wireless keyboard/trackball device is not recognized in the Fedora installer (tried F20, F21TC5, and I think I saw the same problem with the RHEL7 installer back a few months ago). I used the F20 and F21-TC5 Netinstall images to test. This happens on a IntelNUC device. The keyboard (and mouse) are recognized just fine by the Intel UEFI BIOS, and they work in syslinux until the installation type is selected, but as soon as the installer pivots in the kernel the device stops working. (Although the kernel does see the USB device). Perhaps the install kernel does not support all USB devices ? Attaching another keyboard works and allows you to continue installation. After installation has completed and the machine reboots, this device is correctly recognized and work both in console and in X.
Perhaps interesting fact, if I boot with init=/bin/bash the wireless keyboard will also not work, it works for a rebular boot.
Data about the device: dmesg: [1586401.711243] usb 2-3: new low-speed USB device number 31 using xhci_hcd [1586401.733216] usb 2-3: New USB device found, idVendor=1241, idProduct=f767 [1586401.733221] usb 2-3: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=0 [1586401.733223] usb 2-3: Product: Wireless 2.4GHz Trackball Keyboard [1586401.733225] usb 2-3: Manufacturer: HOLTEK [1586401.733724] usb 2-3: ep 0x81 - rounding interval to 64 microframes, ep desc says 80 microframes [1586401.733733] usb 2-3: ep 0x82 - rounding interval to 64 microframes, ep desc says 80 microframes [1586401.767795] input: HOLTEK Wireless 2.4GHz Trackball Keyboard as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb2/2-3/2-3:1.0/input/input18 [1586401.768270] LC RC1000MCE 0003:1241:F767.000B: input,hidraw4: USB HID v1.10 Keyboard [HOLTEK Wireless 2.4GHz Trackball Keyboard] on usb-0000:00:14.0-3/input0 [1586401.768653] input: HOLTEK Wireless 2.4GHz Trackball Keyboard as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb2/2-3/2-3:1.1/input/input19 [1586401.770033] LC RC1000MCE 0003:1241:F767.000C: input,hiddev0,hidraw5: USB HID v1.10 Mouse [HOLTEK Wireless 2.4GHz Trackball Keyboard] on usb-0000:00:14.0-3/input1 lsusb: Bus 002 Device 031: ID 1241:f767 Belkin Keyboard $ lsusb -v -s 002:031 Bus 002 Device 031: ID 1241:f767 Belkin Keyboard Couldn't open device, some information will be missing Device Descriptor: bLength 18 bDescriptorType 1 bcdUSB 1.10 bDeviceClass 0 (Defined at Interface level) bDeviceSubClass 0 bDeviceProtocol 0 bMaxPacketSize0 8 idVendor 0x1241 Belkin idProduct 0xf767 Keyboard bcdDevice 0.01 iManufacturer 1 iProduct 2 iSerial 0 bNumConfigurations 1 Configuration Descriptor: bLength 9 bDescriptorType 2 wTotalLength 59 bNumInterfaces 2 bConfigurationValue 1 iConfiguration 0 bmAttributes 0xa0 (Bus Powered) Remote Wakeup MaxPower 100mA Interface Descriptor: bLength 9 bDescriptorType 4 bInterfaceNumber 0 bAlternateSetting 0 bNumEndpoints 1 bInterfaceClass 3 Human Interface Device bInterfaceSubClass 1 Boot Interface Subclass bInterfaceProtocol 1 Keyboard iInterface 0 HID Device Descriptor: bLength 9 bDescriptorType 33 bcdHID 1.10 bCountryCode 0 Not supported bNumDescriptors 1 bDescriptorType 34 Report wDescriptorLength 61 Report Descriptors: ** UNAVAILABLE ** Endpoint Descriptor: bLength 7 bDescriptorType 5 bEndpointAddress 0x81 EP 1 IN bmAttributes 3 Transfer Type Interrupt Synch Type None Usage Type Data wMaxPacketSize 0x0008 1x 8 bytes bInterval 10 Interface Descriptor: bLength 9 bDescriptorType 4 bInterfaceNumber 1 bAlternateSetting 0 bNumEndpoints 1 bInterfaceClass 3 Human Interface Device bInterfaceSubClass 1 Boot Interface Subclass bInterfaceProtocol 2 Mouse iInterface 0 HID Device Descriptor: bLength 9 bDescriptorType 33 bcdHID 1.10 bCountryCode 0 Not supported bNumDescriptors 1 bDescriptorType 34 Report wDescriptorLength 131 Report Descriptors: ** UNAVAILABLE ** Endpoint Descriptor: bLength 7 bDescriptorType 5 bEndpointAddress 0x82 EP 2 IN bmAttributes 3 Transfer Type Interrupt Synch Type None Usage Type Data wMaxPacketSize 0x0008 1x 8 bytes bInterval 10
anaconda supports whatever the kernel supports.
(In reply to bcl from comment #3) > anaconda supports whatever the kernel supports. That'd be accurate if Simo didn't also say: (In reply to Simo Sorce from comment #0) > After installation has completed and the machine reboots, this device is > correctly recognized and work both in console and in X. So it seems that something in the initramfs is likely lacking to support the device. Simo, could you figure out what kernel module is loaded after installation and see if that is present in the initramfs?
Josh I am not extactly certain of what is missing in the initramfs, as the machine I used the keyboard on is out of reach today. However I did an lsmod before/after attaching the wireles keyboard dongle to another machine and I see a new module loaded there called hid_lcpower Maybe you can check if this module is present in the initramfs of a vanilla F20 installer ?
Ok I used lsinitrd on the Fedora 20 netinst iso (which is what I used for the install) and can confirm that hid_lcpower is not there. I will try to manually load that module in a dracut shell later to confirm that is all is needed.
Ok I think I verified hid-lcpower is all is needed, this is how: - I fetched the 3.11.10-301 kernel package and created a virtual disk with the his-lcpower.so driver file in it. - Then I created a new veritual machine and attached the usb device to it, as well as the veritual disk creatyed in the step above. - Booted the machine (and surprisingly the bios can use the wireless keyboard) - Started the install and verified that the keyboard/trackabll do not work - Dropped to a shell, mounterd the other virtual drive an simply used insmod to load the driver. - wireless keyboard/trackball now works. So what component is responsible for generating the install image initrd ? I could send a patch.
I think that would be dracut. Harald will certainly let us know if that's not correct. Note that we can't fix this for F20 as release media isn't respun, but we can make sure it's fixed for F21 and rawhide. Thanks for digging into this.
Created attachment 935039 [details] Patch to add hid-lcpower module support I'm not a dracut expert and haven't gone throuh building an install image for F21, but here is a patch anyway.
Thanks! http://git.kernel.org/cgit/boot/dracut/dracut.git/commit/?id=23ad117c4951c040761e754adb605e98c034dfe7
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