Talk:OLPC Firmware q2e12

OpenFirmware can't read the keyboard or reads garbage

I acquired a developer key yesterday and at first I was able to get the OpenFirmware prompt and type things, but now even if I power-on the machine, press escape and type at the OFW prompt, nothing shows up, or garbage characters, or sometimes it behaves as if the CTRL key is pressed.

For example, if I press the letter 'f', I need to press it several times for it to appear, sometimes if I press CTRL first it seems to toggle it back off and then the next character I type will indeed appear, but mostly I can not enter any text now.

The strange things is that the first few times I tried, I could.