If your keyboard works at the command line, su to root and open yast by typing the command > yast
This will bring you to a command interface of yast. You have all the same functionality as you would if using a gui. You can also restore your keyboard from here ;)
---- Alan Gore <
agore@qwest.net> wrote:
> Thanks for the help last week on my problem with getting remote VNC
> access to a new SUSE installation. I found that my problem was an
> overenthusiastic SUSE firewall. Although I checked the firewall port
> open options when I opted in YaST for enabling the VNC ("Remote KDE
> desktop") server. There must be a bug that is causing the wrong port
> to be opened for VNC. I should be able to go into YaST firewall
> configuration and manually open port 5900.
>
> But I've hot a new problem: suddenly, KDE can't see m keyboard. It
> doesn't see any characters I enter, except that the Alt-F4
> combination, which used to close the current window, now pops me out
> to a kernel login. The keyboard works fine here, so I know it's not
> my hardware.
>
> Wiyjout a keyboard in KDE, I can't enter the root password needed to
> get into YaST to reconfigure the firewall. This prevents me from
> getting VNC access back. Is there a way of disabling the firewall
> without a keyboard, or from he kernel login in which my keyboard stll
> works?
>
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