From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 18 12:52:28 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from switchblade.cyberpunkz.org (switchblade.cyberpunkz.org [198.174.169.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C49E37B40D for ; Tue, 18 Sep 2001 12:52:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from rob@localhost) by switchblade.cyberpunkz.org (8.11.6/CpA-TLS1.2) id f8IJqHr78531; Tue, 18 Sep 2001 14:52:17 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from rob) Posted-Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 14:52:17 -0500 (CDT) Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 14:52:17 -0500 From: Rob Andrews To: Robin Becker Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to get console keyboard going Message-ID: <20010918145217.C81157@switchblade.cyberpunkz.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="YD3LsXFS42OYHhNZ" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from robin@jessikat.fsnet.co.uk on Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 06:11:11PM +0100 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 --YD3LsXFS42OYHhNZ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 06:11:11PM +0100, Robin Becker wrote: [ -snip- ] Opposed to what everyone else is saying on this thread so far might I suggest looking into setting up a comport on the box to allow a serial connection console. In larger enviroments I have seen people make use of routers and digiboards to allow serial connections to grab consoles on machines in case of problems such as your concerned with. I don't recall right off the documentation location for setting this up but it would seem to be a much more logical approach=20 to your problem. Just a thought :) Best of luck. --=20 Rob Andrews Administrator Cyberpunk Alliance http://www.cyberpunkz.org/ Minneapolis, MN --YD3LsXFS42OYHhNZ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7p6XxAXwJ9YLqJJURAmKHAJ9xW4/D3YuENcCX4wbxIv7fxCyXbQCeJbgu XDMIhx4t2w2wSxdKLdhEXnw= =68jl -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --YD3LsXFS42OYHhNZ-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message