[systemd-devel] [PATCH 0/2] (dracut) hwdb needed in early boot for some keyboards

[Alexander E. Patrakov]

2013/11/13 Alexander E. Patrakov <patrakov at gmail.com>:
> Colin Guthrie wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> In this bug report https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11645 a user is
>> unable to enter their encrypted root password via a wireless keyboard
>> connected with a Logitech, Inc. Unifying Receiver.
>
>
> Just in case, I do have the same model of wireless keyboard and will
> validate the bug (for the LUKS-password case) later today on my laptop.
>
> The keyboard does work on my desktop, but there's no initramfs there.

I hereby confirm that the wireless Logitech keyboard works for
entering the LUKS password on the laptop, if one does not create a
host-only initramfs. This is with dracut-031.

Some relevant kernel config bits:

CONFIG_HID=y
CONFIG_HID_GENERIC=y
CONFIG_HID_LOGITECH=y
CONFIG_HID_LOGITECH_DJ=m   # dracut is smart enough to include it,
even though the password entry works well without it

CONFIG_USB_HID=m

CONFIG_USB_XHCI_HCD=m
CONFIG_USB_EHCI_HCD=m
CONFIG_USB_EHCI_PCI=m

-- 
Alexander E. Patrakov