This has been reported to work in later versions of FreeBSD.
If you have Microsoft Natural 4000 Keyboard that you want to use with FreeBSD 8.0 you need this patch:
Index: quirk/usb_quirk.c =================================================================== --- quirk/usb_quirk.c (revision 196574) +++ quirk/usb_quirk.c (working copy) @@ -122,6 +122,7 @@ {USB_QUIRK_ENTRY(USB_VENDOR_METAGEEK, USB_PRODUCT_METAGEEK_WISPY1B, 0x0000, 0xFFFF, UQ_KBD_IGNORE, UQ_HID_IGNORE, UQ_NONE)}, {USB_QUIRK_ENTRY(USB_VENDOR_TENX, USB_PRODUCT_TENX_UAUDIO0, 0x0101, 0x0101, UQ_AUDIO_SWAP_LR, UQ_NONE)}, /* MS keyboards do weird things */ + {USB_QUIRK_ENTRY(USB_VENDOR_MICROSOFT, USB_PRODUCT_MICROSOFT_NATURAL4000, 0x0000, 0xFFFF, UQ_KBD_BOOTPROTO, UQ_NONE)}, {USB_QUIRK_ENTRY(USB_VENDOR_MICROSOFT, USB_PRODUCT_MICROSOFT_WLINTELLIMOUSE, 0x0000, 0xFFFF, UQ_MS_LEADING_BYTE, UQ_NONE)}, {USB_QUIRK_ENTRY(USB_VENDOR_METAGEEK, USB_PRODUCT_METAGEEK_WISPY24X, 0x0000, 0xFFFF, UQ_KBD_IGNORE, UQ_HID_IGNORE, UQ_NONE)}, }; @@ -138,6 +139,7 @@ [UQ_BUS_POWERED] = "UQ_BUS_POWERED", [UQ_HID_IGNORE] = "UQ_HID_IGNORE", [UQ_KBD_IGNORE] = "UQ_KBD_IGNORE", + [UQ_KBD_BOOTPROTO] = "UQ_KBD_BOOTPROTO", [UQ_MS_BAD_CLASS] = "UQ_MS_BAD_CLASS", [UQ_MS_LEADING_BYTE] = "UQ_MS_LEADING_BYTE", [UQ_MS_REVZ] = "UQ_MS_REVZ", Index: quirk/usb_quirk.h =================================================================== --- quirk/usb_quirk.h (revision 196574) +++ quirk/usb_quirk.h (working copy) @@ -40,6 +40,7 @@ UQ_BUS_POWERED, /* device is bus powered, despite claim */ UQ_HID_IGNORE, /* device should be ignored by hid class */ UQ_KBD_IGNORE, /* device should be ignored by kbd class */ + UQ_KBD_BOOTPROTO, /* kbd should use the boot proto. */ UQ_MS_BAD_CLASS, /* doesn't identify properly */ UQ_MS_LEADING_BYTE, /* mouse sends an unknown leading byte */ UQ_MS_REVZ, /* mouse has Z-axis reversed */ Index: input/ukbd.c =================================================================== --- input/ukbd.c (revision 196574) +++ input/ukbd.c (working copy) @@ -789,6 +789,17 @@ * according to the BIOS data? */ KBD_PROBE_DONE(kbd); + /* + * Set boot protocol if we need the quirk. + */ + + if (usb_test_quirk(uaa, UQ_KBD_BOOTPROTO)) { + err = usbd_req_set_protocol(sc->sc_udev, &Giant, sc->sc_iface_index, 0); + if (err != USB_ERR_NORMAL_COMPLETION) { + DPRINTF("set protocol error=%s\n", usbd_errstr(err)); + goto detach; + } + } /* figure out if there is an ID byte in the data */ err = usbd_req_get_hid_desc(uaa->device, NULL, &hid_ptr, Index: usbdevs =================================================================== --- usbdevs (revision 196574) +++ usbdevs (working copy) @@ -1751,6 +1751,7 @@ product MICROSOFT WLNOTEBOOK3 0x00d2 Wireless Optical Mouse 3000 (Model 1049) product MICROSOFT WLUSBMOUSE 0x00b9 Wireless USB Mouse product MICROSOFT XBOX360 0x0292 XBOX 360 WLAN +product MICROSOFT NATURAL4000 0x00db Natural Ergonomic Keyboard 4000 /* Microtech products */ product MICROTECH SCSIDB25 0x0004 USB-SCSI-DB25
cd /usr/src/sys/dev/usb; patch < patchfile cd /usr/src make buildkernel make installkernel shutdown -r now