From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 24 20:44:12 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) id UAA05752 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 24 Jul 1995 20:44:12 -0700 Received: from cs.weber.edu (cs.weber.edu [137.190.16.16]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) with SMTP id UAA05746 for ; Mon, 24 Jul 1995 20:44:10 -0700 Received: by cs.weber.edu (4.1/SMI-4.1.1) id AA13066; Mon, 24 Jul 95 21:36:48 MDT From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Message-Id: <9507250336.AA13066@cs.weber.edu> Subject: Re: Headless/keyboardless booting... To: mnewell@lupine.nsi.nasa.gov (Michael C. Newell) Date: Mon, 24 Jul 95 21:36:48 MDT Cc: gibbs@freefall.cdrom.com, joe@via.net, questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Michael C. Newell" at Jul 24, 95 09:42:31 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4dev PL52] Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > Seriously what WAS (IMHO) short sighted was to REQUIRE a keyboard. I > still have an old PC that won't pass POST without a keyboard present and > has no BIOS option to circumvent the situation. It's really annoying to > have a headless PC that requires a keyboard. > > Fortunately, as I said in my original posting, most modern BIOSen don't > have this restriction. Unfortunately I *DID* run across one 486 mother > board recently (sorry I don't remember the details; it's a friends PC) > that DID require a keyboard. Big time bummer! I've seen eletrical keyboard simulation dongles that fix this problem. The expensive part of the keyboard is the key action and the case. I can't rememeber who carried them though. Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.