Librem11: external keyboard suddenly unusable

heyoo
i just received my librem11 yesterday
i was tinkering with it, set it down, went to sleep
and now i can’t get the external keyboard to reconnect
tried dusting off the connectors, logging out, rebooting, to no avail

does anyone have any thoughts on how it might be recognized again?

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after re-seating the keyboard 10 times
for whatever reason, the 11th time did the trick
the external keyboard is responsive again

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Get used to it, it only gets worse. Those connectors wear more and more with time as you seat and unseat the keyboard to collapse the tablet.

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It seems like there might be an additional problem?

I ran into the issue again. No matter how many times I re-seated, logged out and back in, or rebooted… The keyboard never came back.

During one of the reboots, I noticed, just before the kernel booted, a USB error, but it flashed by very quickly. I rebooted, to try and capture the error. But, of course, this time the tablet booted, no error, and the keyboard was back.

:cry:

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