Date: Mon, 24 Jul 95 21:36:48 MDT From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) To: mnewell@lupine.nsi.nasa.gov (Michael C. Newell) Cc: gibbs@freefall.cdrom.com, joe@via.net, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Headless/keyboardless booting... Message-ID: <9507250336.AA13066@cs.weber.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.950724213719.22605B-100000@lupine.nsi.nasa.gov> from "Michael C. Newell" at Jul 24, 95 09:42:31 pm
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> Seriously what WAS (IMHO) short sighted was to REQUIRE a keyboard. I > still have an old PC that won't pass POST without a keyboard present and > has no BIOS option to circumvent the situation. It's really annoying to > have a headless PC that requires a keyboard. > > Fortunately, as I said in my original posting, most modern BIOSen don't > have this restriction. Unfortunately I *DID* run across one 486 mother > board recently (sorry I don't remember the details; it's a friends PC) > that DID require a keyboard. Big time bummer! I've seen eletrical keyboard simulation dongles that fix this problem. The expensive part of the keyboard is the key action and the case. I can't rememeber who carried them though. Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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