Date: 06 Nov 2004 12:28:43 -0500 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: Lee Lispon <lee@pogg.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: kernel tunable Message-ID: <44r7n66g50.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <200411032100.iA3L0ohG042193@gandalf.pogg.net> References: <200411032100.iA3L0ohG042193@gandalf.pogg.net>
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Lee Lispon <lee@pogg.net> writes:
> I have a dell poweredge server with a Remote Access Card installed. I
> successfully installed FreeBSD 4.10 on this system and it works great.
> Unfortunately the RAC card does not accept input from a remote keyboard
> when there is not a local keyboard installed. I beleive this is because
> the kernel does not detect the keyboard and disables it and then switches
> the console to the serial device. My question is how do I force the
> keyboard to always be enabled? I am not positive where I would do this
> and what the flag would be. Perhaps atkdb=0x01 ???
The driver documentation ("man atkbd") shows how to configure a new
kernel to do this. It also mentions that the boot process can set the
variable without needing to compile a kernel.
--
Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area
http://be-well.ilk.org:8088/~lowell/
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