Thanks for the reply, but at no point during the install do I see an option to install the “necessary” drivers? I just ran through the install once more and still don’t see any prompt or indication asking about supporting USB drivers. I did the install using a USB keyboard on both the VM instance and the dedicated hardware.
Thanks again,
Mike
> On Jun 14, 2018, at 5:04 PM, KatolaZ <katolaz@???> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jun 14, 2018 at 10:44:10PM +0200, Stefan Krusche wrote:
>> Am Donnerstag 14 Juni 2018 schrieb Michael McConnell:
>>> Thanks for confirming I am not going crazy (: I've been googling around
>>> to see if USB is a non-free firmware element and from what I can tell
>>> since loading firmware via USB seems to be the recommended way to load
>>> non-free drivers I doubt this is a licensing issue. From what I've read
>>> it appears intel and a few others gave USB 100% license free. Sooo is
>>> this just an overlooked driver from the release?
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Mike
>>
>> The driver for USB is in the standard kernel. It just wasn't included in the initrd created during my installation, at least not the one for the USB keyboard, as I did the installation with another, old PS2 keyboard *and* chose "only necessary drivers", not "generic", which includes all the available drivers into the initrd, if I understand correctly. So, as no USB was being used during install the installer included no USB drivers in initrd, I think. In my case the problem didn't have anything to do with licensing or non-available non-free software or something like that.
>>
>
> Hi Stefan,
>
> if you choose to install only the necessary drivers, you will be
> guaranteed to have only the drivers needed for the hardware present in
> the system at install time. That's the reason why you don't get USB
> modules in the initrd (which is exactly what I would expect to happen
> if I asked to include only the necessary drivers, TBH).
>
> I guess there is genuinely no bug here, just a feature ;) I am sure
> you get the point.
>
> HND
>
> KatolaZ
>
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