Unable to enter initial password using Debian

[Eaters]

I have downloaded Debian6 (http://downloads.raspberrypi.o.....4-2012.zip) and successfully got the Pi to show the initial boot up on the TV. However when it comes to entering the user name and password I have a problem. User name OK – "Pi" but when I try to enter the password ("raspberry") nothing happens on the screen. It won't accept any characters at all. Help please.

[dom]

Sounds like keyboard is not working. Can you try another?

Probably a power supply issue. Connecting the keyboard through a powered USB hub may fix it.

You could also try swapping the USB power supply *and* usb power supply cable.

[frying_fish]

The user name is "pi" not "Pi".  Have you tried that?

That could possibly be the issue.

User: pi

password: raspberry

That should work.

[cheery]

If a linux terminal asks for password, it will not show any response for your input. Keep this in mind.

Just type raspberry and then hit enter. You should get in if it's a correct password. Otherwise it will wait a bit and asks again. I also thought some image used 'suse' as a password.

Oh.. and keep in mind everything you type is case-sensitive. A good linux system does not accept big letters in place of small letters or vice versa.

[Eaters]

Thanks for the thoughts folks. Presumably as I've been able to type "pi" the keyboard is OK. I'm using a Blackberry charger rated at 5 volts and 700 mA.

And I've checked the username and I did type "pi" and not "Pi".

It's as if there are no place holders on the line where the password is to be entered. When its waiting for a password and I hold a key down on the keyboard, the cursor starts flickering in a different way thus indicating its receiving a signal but nothing appears on screen nor does the cursor move.

One other thing (may or not have anything to do with it) but during the first boot up there are three line which show "failed" in red. I can't read them all as it moves on too quickly but here's the first two:

starting NFS common utilities: statd failed

then a few lines further on...

statpar: service returned failure nfs common failed

Any thoughts?

[Eaters]

Thanks Cheery. I missed your post when responding just now and so will try it again and advise the outcome

[Eaters]

Hi Cheery. Thanks for the thought. It's now working. I can start playing

[Eaters]

Just to clarify what I believe was happening in case any others get a similar problem, because Linux doesn't show any characters for the password being typed, I was not aware that some letters I was typing were being duplicated. Solution was to type each letter crisply and cleanly as possible. So the keyboard was part of the problem after all. Thanks all for your help.

[tadpole]

This wasn't your solution, but I thought I'd list it in case someone else was having difficulties with a login problem that I was having.
On the first login, the keyboard is set to UK (British) layout, which means that if you type "raspberry" on a non-english-layout keyboard you might get something else. My german keyboard has the Y and Z swapped. So in this case you need to use 'raspberrz' as the password, which will be entered as raspberry for the computer to read.
Subsequently you can change your keyboard layout. There is a link somewhere on how to do that. This caused my boot to go EXTREMELY slow when it hit the keyboard line, but not to worry. It does eventually bootup. After logging in you can use:
sudo setupcon
and this fixed the slow bootup.