From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 7 8:59:12 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from xena.gsicomp.on.ca (cr677933-a.ktchnr1.on.wave.home.com [24.43.230.149]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6358237B401 for ; Wed, 7 Feb 2001 08:58:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from hermes (hermes.gsicomp.on.ca [192.168.0.18]) by xena.gsicomp.on.ca (8.11.1/8.9.3) with SMTP id f17Gv0i40417; Wed, 7 Feb 2001 11:57:00 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from matt@gsicomp.on.ca) Message-ID: <006c01c09128$735f2af0$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> From: "Matthew Emmerton" To: "Jason F Wells" , References: <20010207095020.A6097@fry.routermonkey.com> Subject: Re: Keyboard detection in 4.2-RELEASE, 4.2-STABLE Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2001 12:07:28 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Now we find that if a server is rebooted without the keyboard > connected when it boots, if we plug in a keyboard after the > fact it doesn't work. If the keyboard is connected at boot time, > it can be unplugged and plugged back in without any problem. You shouldn't be hot-plugging keyboards!! I've destroyed two keyboards and keyboard controllers (motherboards) by doing this. You really have two options - purchase a keyboard for each system and leave them plugged in (PS/2-style keyboards can be had for less than CAD$15 each) or purchase a KVM. Both of these options are cheaper than the downtime you'll experience when a system decides to *never* work with a keyboard again. -- Matt Emmerton To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message