From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jul 23 14:29:14 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from etinc.com (et-gw.etinc.com [207.252.1.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE40014E53 for ; Fri, 23 Jul 1999 14:29:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dennis@etinc.com) Received: from dbsys (dbsys.etinc.com [207.252.1.18]) by etinc.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id RAA17158; Fri, 23 Jul 1999 17:26:41 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199907232126.RAA17158@etinc.com> X-Sender: dennis@etinc.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.0 Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1999 16:21:04 -0400 To: Adrian Filipi-Martin , Alex Zepeda From: Dennis Subject: Re: What good PII/PIII Motherboards for FreeBSD and Celeron CPU's Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 10:35 AM 7/23/99 -0400, Adrian Filipi-Martin wrote: >On Thu, 22 Jul 1999, Alex Zepeda wrote: > >> On Thu, 22 Jul 1999, Adrian Filipi-Martin wrote: >> >> > I know a lot of people like the ASUS P2B boards, but I've noticed a >> > tendency for the systems to reset occasionally when plugging in a keyboard. >> > I've seen this with both FreeBSD and NT, so I'm considering it a property >> > of the board. >> >> If this is a PS/2 style keyboard, don't plug and unplug them when the host >> is powered up. The PS/2 style stuf seems to be very sensitive to that >> sort of thing. If it was a USB keyboard doing that... then that would be >> odd. > > Yes, it is a PS/2 keyboard, but these are the only MB's that I have >run into this problem with other than some AIX boxes years ago that would >blow a fuse when disconnecting the keyboard from a running system. > > This isn't that big a problem. I only have keyboard installed >while building the systems. Thereafter they are serial console only. I've seen it on an SBC (with a KB connector on board). it IS a problem if they want to do maintanence without bringing down the system. Dennis To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message