Mountain lion and apple usb keyboard

Hi I installed OSX mountain lion and now the number pad on my apple keyboard doesn't work is there a pref somewhere to turn it on? I looked in keybard prefs but saw nothing.


eggman

Im no computer tech by no means, after installing ML my key board also didnt function properly. I unpluged the power cord after shutting down. I waited about a minute before I pluged the coard back in and the keybord has worked perfectly from then on. I guess it reset its self?

That is odd. I just tried the keyboard from my old G3 and things seem to work fine. Including the number pad. Can't try one of the newer usb keyboards yet.

Do the numbers not appear at all or are they just slower appearing? Of slower check the Universal Access settings for the keyboard. Check the Slow Keys settings.

Thanks for answering. I found the problem I had to turn off "enable mouse keys" in the accessibility prefs panel. That got the number pad working again.


eggman

Thanks for reporting back with that in case someone else runs into it. I was wondering for a bit as I use the USB Metal apple keyboard with the Number pad and it works great in ML.

Next time try not to use any application while upgrading the OS X. When finish run a repair permissions just as a precaution.

Rob206 said:

Next time try not to use any application while upgrading the OS X. When finish run a repair permissions just as a precaution.

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@Dennis This has me thinking don't the installers for Lion and Mountain Lion remind you to quit programs during installation? Even going so far as to offer to quit them for you.

@Rob206 I generally don't bother running permissions after an OS installation. File permissions for the system files should have been set correctly by the installer. About the only way I can think of for them to be messed up after an installation is if some third-party app has been installed as well.

No keyboard after 10.8 upgrade

Hi guys, I've got a similar problem. Well, sort of.

I decided to upgrade my 2008 Mac Pro to 10.8. I downloaded it via the app store, ran it and let it do its thing.
After it had finished the Mac booted up and took me to my log in screen.
This is when I realised that the Apple USB aluminium keyboard doesn't work any more. The mouse didn't either so I plugged that in directly to a USB port and it worked great. But the keyboard still doesn't.
I've tried a spare USB aluminium keyboard with no joy and I even tried a HP USB keyboard with no joy.

So in short, I can't log in as I have no way of entering my password. Any ideas?

Joniboy said:

Hi guys, I've got a similar problem. Well, sort of.

I decided to upgrade my 2008 Mac Pro to 10.8. I downloaded it via the app store, ran it and let it do its thing.
After it had finished the Mac booted up and took me to my log in screen.
This is when I realised that the Apple USB aluminium keyboard doesn't work any more. The mouse didn't either so I plugged that in directly to a USB port and it worked great. But the keyboard still doesn't.
I've tried a spare USB aluminium keyboard with no joy and I even tried a HP USB keyboard with no joy.

So in short, I can't log in as I have no way of entering my password. Any ideas?

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We are in the same boat. I have Mac Pro 3.1, tried ALU wired and bluetooth apple keyboard, both are dead in ML install.

https://discussions.apple.com/message/19038505#19038505
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4137142?start=0&tstart=0

bax2003 said:

We are in the same boat. I have Mac Pro 3.1, tried ALU wired and bluetooth apple keyboard, both are dead in ML install.

https://discussions.apple.com/message/19038505#19038505
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4137142?start=0&tstart=0

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Cheers for the links. I'll post up on there too.
Mine is now coming up with the "No bluetooth keyboard detected" message even though the wired USB keyboard is connected. I've never had a wireless keyboard so it must be a default setting of mountain lion to start looking for one.

Just one thing I dont understand: there is a lot of people who have Mac Pro 3.1 with no single problem with Mountain Lion:

MacPro '08 3,1 and Mountain Lion - MacRumors Forums

What could be our problem: EFI version maybe ?

bax2003 said:

Just one thing I dont understand: there is a lot of people who have Mac Pro 3.1 with no single problem with Mountain Lion:

MacPro '08 3,1 and Mountain Lion - MacRumors Forums

What could be our problem: EFI version maybe ?

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Mountain Lion will NOT install on any Mac with 32-Bit EFI. That is a known and confirmed fact. There is no more 32-Bit Kernel in Mountain Lion. The WHOLE computer and not just the CPU has to be 64-Bit from the EFI Firmware on.

dtravis7 said:

Mountain Lion will NOT install on any Mac with 32-Bit EFI. That is a known and confirmed fact. There is no more 32-Bit Kernel in Mountain Lion. The WHOLE computer and not just the CPU has to be 64-Bit from the EFI Firmware on.

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Mac Pro 3.1 (Early 2008) has 64-bit EFI, and is on the Apple's supported Macs list for Mountain Lion.

Original Mac Pro 1.1 (Mid 2006), and 2.1 (2007) have 32-bit EFI. They are officially not supported.

Yes the 2008 one does. Anything before that is EFI-32.

If you want to be sure run the terminal command in this article. It will tell you.

http://thenubbyadmin.com/2012/04/30/what-version-of-efi-is-my-mac-os-x-computer-running/

ALSO, the video card has to have 64-Bit drivers and many older cards in the Mac Pro do not. There is a list on Apples site.

After a few tests it seems there is no way for me to get the keyboard to work. Some people have been lucky where it just started working again but I've not had this.

So, for now, I've reverted back to 10.7 via a system restore and my time machine backup. I now have a working keyboard again. It amazed me that I could get through the system restore without having to tap any keys, except for the initial cmd+R on start up.
So I'm back up and running and for those of you who use the computer for work, I suggest you do the same. I do hope that all of you did a time machine backup prior to installing 10.8!

Remove AirPort card from Mac Pro and USB will work just fine.