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  • USB keyboard/mouse/devices not working in RHEL 7.3

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    New user here. I just installed RedHat Enterprise Linux 7.3 on a new system. After booting into the first-boot set up GUI, my keyboard and mouse are not working. They aren't even powered. I saw during the boot process these two errors:

    usbserial: usb_serial_init - usb_register failed
    
    usbserial: usb_serial_init - returning with error -19
    

    I don't know if that's related to my problem. My keyboard/mouse are not connected via a hub, and I tried connecting to different USB ports but they still don't work. Interestingly, they work at the BIOS stage, in the RHEL GUI installer, and in the GRUB menu.

    How do I fix this problem? Thanks.

    BTW, I tried to re-install the whole system. While my keyboard/mouse worked during installation, they still end up unpowered/disconnected when booting into the installed OS.

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