From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 7 9: 8:33 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from bells.cs.ucl.ac.uk (bells.cs.ucl.ac.uk [128.16.5.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8344137B491 for ; Wed, 7 Feb 2001 09:08:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from cactus.cs.ucl.ac.uk by bells.cs.ucl.ac.uk with local SMTP id ; Wed, 7 Feb 2001 17:08:12 +0000 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Keyboard detection in 4.2-RELEASE, 4.2-STABLE In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 07 Feb 2001 12:07:28 EST." <006c01c09128$735f2af0$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2001 17:08:10 +0000 Message-ID: <8106.981565690@cs.ucl.ac.uk> From: Greg MATTHEWS Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG would i be right in assuming that freebsd works like other unixen (sunos/solaris in my exp) in that booting without k/b forces the i/o through the console (serial) port. therefore plugging a kb in has no effect. i second what matt said too. GREG > > 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. third option... use serial consoles. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message