fully functional keyboard with Debian/Mobian

[wigan]

I had a fully functional keyboard under Arch/Monjaro w/
linux-image-5.17-sunxi64 using Megi's tutorial, but not having any luck w/
Megi's Debian/Mobian tut using the userland driver and vmlinuz-6.1-sunx64.

The userland driver doesn't seem to do anything, and loading the i2c-dev
module kills the native keyboard support. 'ppkb-i2c-inputd.service' shows up
in '>systemctl status' as enabled, but fails cause it 'can't find /dev/i2c-2
device', wh/ looks like a clue, but I read that those are loaded at boot time
and manually creating one doesn't seem like the solution.

I've also tried 'https://wiki.mobian.org/ppaccessories'.

I read that a fully functional keyboard w/ Debian/Mobian has been achieved
(year+ old reports and maybe a different kernel), yet it eludes me.

Soliciting suggestions/clues.

[wigan]

I had a fully functional keyboard under Arch/Monjaro w/
linux-image-5.17-sunxi64 using Megi's tutorial, but not having any luck w/
Megi's Debian/Mobian tut using the userland driver and vmlinuz-6.1-sunx64.

The userland driver doesn't seem to do anything, and loading the i2c-dev
module kills the native keyboard support. 'ppkb-i2c-inputd.service' shows up
in '>systemctl status' as enabled, but fails cause it 'can't find /dev/i2c-2
device', wh/ looks like a clue, but I read that those are loaded at boot time
and manually creating one doesn't seem like the solution.

I've also tried 'https://wiki.mobian.org/ppaccessories'.

I read that a fully functional keyboard w/ Debian/Mobian has been achieved
(year+ old reports and maybe a different kernel), yet it eludes me.

Soliciting suggestions/clues.

Update:

Referring to 'https://wiki.mobian.org/ppaccessories' above, the Automatic
Settings at the top didn't do anything, but adding 'export
XKB_DEFAULT_MODEL=ppkb' to ~/.profile (in the Symbol Keys section toward the
bottom) activated the top row symbols.  You'll need to go into 'settings >
keyboard > Alternative Character Key' and choose a key to use w/ numbers 1-10
to bring them up (the 'L3 key'?).

And disable the virtual keyboard in...

  Settings > Accessibility > Screen keyboard

  This doesn't stick between boots, but it's not much trouble, and it saves
  you from having to remember to reactivate it before removing the fon from
  the keyboard and not have a way to input.

Any clues on how to access the console??