board does not work after booting

I just installed Tao 1.0 U3 on a PIII/600MHz. The installation process 
went fine, but after first boot keyboard stopped working. I tried 
rebooting, which made no difference: My keyboard still works in grub, 
but after that it just dies. I also tried with another PS2 keyboard and 
the result was the same.

The box seems to work otherwise just fine - I can ssh to it. I do not 
see anything keyboard related in dmesg nor in /var/log/messages. 
Previously the box had RHL7.3, in which the keyboard worked just fine.

Any ideas what is going on and what I could do about it?

I am now yumming the current updates to it, maybe a new kernel will fix 
the issue, I hope so...

Regards,
Peter