Date: Thu, 9 Feb 1995 13:42:19 +0100 (MET) From: j@uriah.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD hackers) Subject: Re: Support for SMC8432 PCI ethernet cards? Message-ID: <199502091242.NAA25912@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de> In-Reply-To: <199502090015.TAA05203@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu> from "Wankle Rotary Engine" at Feb 8, 95 07:15:26 pm
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As Wankle Rotary Engine wrote:
|
| Oh, one thing I discovered: the keyboard detect code in the bootblocks
| seems to work correctly with these machines (you don't even have to
| change the CMOS settings :), but you have to unplug both the keyboard
| *and* the PS/2 style mouse before it will detect that the keyboard is
| missing and default over to serial mode. This is perfectly understandable
| and resonable (the mouse isn't much use without the keyboard anyway) but
| I thought I'd note it in case anyone plans on trying the serial boot
| stuff on a machine with a PS/2 mouse.
>From my reading in van Gilluwe's book, it should be detectable if
there's really a keyboard connected or just only a mouse.
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