From owner-freebsd-current Sun Aug 12 16:34: 2 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mail.tgd.net (rand.tgd.net [64.81.67.117]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 596F437B405 for ; Sun, 12 Aug 2001 16:33:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sean@mailhost.tgd.net) Received: (qmail 71820 invoked by uid 1001); 12 Aug 2001 23:33:51 -0000 Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2001 16:33:51 -0700 From: Sean Chittenden To: Mike Burgett Cc: Mike Smith , Nate Williams , "tlambert2@mindspring.com" , "current@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: 2nd data point for keyboard probes (was Re: FreeBSD's aggressive keyboard probe/attach) Message-ID: <20010812163350.B71659@rand.tgd.net> References: <15222.44015.177885.83834@nomad.yogotech.com> <200108122138.f7CLcPBb021076@dragon.awen.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="VbJkn9YxBvnuCH5J" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200108122138.f7CLcPBb021076@dragon.awen.com>; from "mburgett@awen.com" on Sun, Aug 12, 2001 at = 02:38:25PM X-PGP-Key: 0x1EDDFAAD X-PGP-Fingerprint: C665 A17F 9A56 286C 5CFB 1DEA 9F4F 5CEF 1EDD FAAD X-Web-Homepage: http://sean.chittenden.org/ Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --VbJkn9YxBvnuCH5J Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > I've seen the 'have to be on the machine while booting' behavior > using a Belkin Omniview Pro switch, which oddly, wasn't a problem > with their OmniCube switch, at least not with my machines. Windows > had as much, or more problems with not having the console on the > booting machine as fbsd though. Again, this is only my (one) data > point. Make that two data points, I don't think you're alone in this observation. > I finally got fed up with the Belkin, because *windows* keep losing > it's mouse (or instead of just losing it, it would start sending > what appeared to be random button-press events for tracking events...) > and broke down and bought a Raritan KVM. You mean you got tired of the "Ctl+esc, Up arrow, Enter, Enter" key sequence to get the mouse back? I wonder why.... ;~) None the less, having to have the console active for the system while the BIOS && OS probe the keyboard is a pain when managing a large number of systems. = =20 We eventually made a policy that required the use of a laptop + serial cable anyone when you went to one of the data centers to do some administration of the systems (downtime for a keyboard wasn't an option). -sc --=20 Sean Chittenden --VbJkn9YxBvnuCH5J Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: Sean Chittenden iEYEARECAAYFAjt3El4ACgkQn09c7x7d+q1rzwCdFFPdS+WFH/4Uq5OBsx7Bv2Wl vysAn0NkYEwTylT8K6hEe3nN1erJ3e9i =Rk1b -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --VbJkn9YxBvnuCH5J-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message