From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 19 12: 8: 3 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BD7737B401 for ; Wed, 19 Mar 2003 12:08:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from pa-plum1b-166.pit.adelphia.net (pa-plum1b-122.pit.adelphia.net [24.53.161.122]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21FC943F75 for ; Wed, 19 Mar 2003 12:08:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from potentialtech.com (working [172.16.0.95]) by pa-plum1b-166.pit.adelphia.net (8.12.7/8.12.7) with ESMTP id h2JK7nTb012977; Wed, 19 Mar 2003 15:08:00 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Message-ID: <3E78CE24.1020302@potentialtech.com> Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 15:08:04 -0500 From: Bill Moran User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030301 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Peter Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to turn on keyboard? References: <20030319122524.325ebcb3.peter@kuyarov.org> In-Reply-To: <20030319122524.325ebcb3.peter@kuyarov.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Peter wrote: > Hello, > I got a small server for my home lan, that doesn't have a > keyboard plugged into it. Now it's been up for some 20 days > and now I plugged a keyboard into it, how can I turn the > keyboard "on" ? If it's a traditional-style keyboard, and memory serves: you can't. If I remember correctly, pc keyboards have to be connected during boot or the BIOS doesn't see them. I'm pretty sure it's a pc BIOS issue and not a FreeBSD one. If it's a USB keyboard, that's a different story. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message