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Fix to the January 2011 touchpad and keyboard problem <trac>10597</trac>.

You will need:

Prepare USB drive

Microsoft Windows

insert the USB drive,
create a folder boot on the USB drive,
download http://dev.laptop.org/pub/firmware/q2d14/bootfw.zip to the boot folder on the USB drive,
eject the USB drive,
go to the Upgrade Firmware section on this page.

insert the USB drive,
switch tasks to Finder, display the USB drive, notice the name of the USB drive,
create a folder boot on the USB drive,
control-click on this link, select Download Linked File As ..., and a Save As dialog will appear,
change Where to the name of the USB drive, usually Untitled, then click on the boot folder, then click on Save, the dialog will go away,
switch tasks to Finder, display the USB drive,
eject the USB drive,
go to the Upgrade Firmware section on this page.

insert the USB drive,
create a boot folder on the USB drive,
click on the this link, and a dialog window will appear asking you what you want done with the download,
save the download to the USB drive in the boot folder,
close the Downloads window,
eject the USB drive,
go to the Upgrade Firmware section on this page.

cd /media/DRIVE
wget http://dev.laptop.org/pub/firmware/q2d14/bootfw.zip
umount /media/DRIVE

if you do not see a message that the firmware has been upgraded successfully, check that the USB drive meets these conditions:
- it has a boot folder,
- there is a file bootfw.zip in the boot folder,
- the USB drive has a DOS MBR partition type rather than GPT, (try another drive),