Keyboard setup does not work... some characters are wrong

[cupper3]

I tried both the US and English keyboard settings, and although most of the characters are correct, a number of them are not.

As example, when I press "W" I get "Q", when I press "Z" I get "A", etc.

Any suggestions?

[fluxit]

Is this a laptop keyboard?
Have you saved your settings and then rebooted during your testing?

--Lee

[cupper3]

No, it is a regular keyboard.

Andy

[Dougal]

There are two "types" of keyboards: AZERTY and QWERTY.

Those names are simply the keys in the top-left corner of the keyboard (of the part with letters in it, that is), to the right of the "tab".

When you first boot Puppy and get the keyboard-choosing part you have a list:
keymap type
keymap type
...

Most keymaps (like "us") are QWERTY, so I assume you might have a AZERTY keyboard.

You could try deleting /etc/keymap and rebooting, this time selecting AZERTY (it's the first in the list you are given), or maybe just change the contents of /etc/keymap to AZERTY (I think you might have to make it lower-case: azerty) and reboot.