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Old 10th July 2014
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Since installing NetBSD 6.1.4 there appears to have been changes that mean I now have a working network connection with the jme driver. Good news!

The way the touchpad is detected also seems to have changed. Initially, I thought that the touchpad isn't recognized at all in 6.1.4, as it is no longer listed in the dmesg output, and still causes the keyboard to stop working if pressed.

However, if I press the touchpad or one of its buttons at the GRUB bootloader (I'm booting with other OSs and am using GRUB2 from an ArchLinux installation to chainload the NetBSD partition) the touchpad is recognized and appears to be working correctly (pms0 detects a Synaptics Touchpad 7.2 "Palm Detect").

So I was wondering if anyone can suggest why this could be and if there's something I can do to force NetBSD to look for the touchpad. I can't decide if it's how I'm booting NetBSD, or something I need to get NetBSD to do at bootup.

Many thanks.
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