[ale] keyboard works in bios/grub but not after boot?

[jb at sourceillustrated.com (John Wells)]

John Wells said:
> ps/2.  And the results under Knoppix were only temporary...booted it again
> under knoppix and it wouldn't work.  I'm starting to wonder if I'm having
> mb issues...although the board is pretty new (3 mos.)

Ssh'ing into the box and issuing dmesg...it doesn't look like the keyboard
is even being recognized by the OS:

jb at ubuntubox:~$ dmesg | grep input
input: ImExPS/2 Generic Explorer Mouse on isa0060/serio1
input: PC Speaker