From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 9 4:52: 3 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtpout.mac.com (smtpout.mac.com [204.179.120.85]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3FABA37B400 for ; Tue, 9 Apr 2002 04:51:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp-relay02.mac.com (server-source-si02 [10.13.10.6]) by smtpout.mac.com (8.12.1/8.10.2/1.0) with ESMTP id g39BpP0R015791 for ; Tue, 9 Apr 2002 04:51:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from asmtp01.mac.com ([10.13.10.65]) by smtp-relay02.mac.com (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15 relay02 Jun 21 2001 23:53:48) with ESMTP id GUAU9P00.6BC for ; Tue, 9 Apr 2002 04:51:25 -0700 Received: from localhost ([207.6.134.194]) by asmtp01.mac.com (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15 asmtp01 Jun 21 2001 23:53:48) with ESMTP id GUAU9O00.AKM for ; Tue, 9 Apr 2002 04:51:24 -0700 Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2002 04:51:24 -0700 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v481) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Subject: How good is USB Support??? From: Tom Wiebe To: questions@freebsd.org Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <1DD72009-4BB0-11D6-A891-0030658FC1FC@mac.com> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.481) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi all, I'm about to make the big jump and start replacing our Mac OS 9 servers with FreeBSD Boxen. If only apple would release decent server hardware... But, I digress. My question here is, and I hope this is the appropriate forum, how good is USB support in FreeBSD 4.5? I'm ordering a couple of boxes tomorrow and was wondering if I can get away with using one of the many Apple USB keyboards and Logitech USB mice that I have when I need to get hands on with my machine. If so, that would of course be ideal, allowing me to keep just one keyboard/mouse combo in my server room and swap it around as needed. If not, and I apologize for this rather basic question, are PS/2 keyboards/ mice hot swappable or would I be risking frying my computer by switching them around. I haven't seriously used x86 hardware since before the 386, so I'm a tad out of date here. Oh, and thanks to Steve Jobs, for showing us Mac guys how cool BSD is! Tom Wiebe The Image Foundation http://www.imagefoundation.com/ (604) 688-3124 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message