From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Feb 9 05:03:21 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id FAA09089 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 9 Feb 1995 05:03:21 -0800 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with SMTP id FAA09068 for ; Thu, 9 Feb 1995 05:02:56 -0800 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de with SMTP (5.67b+/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA18319; Thu, 9 Feb 1995 14:04:15 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.9/8.6.9-s1) with UUCP id OAA06407 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Thu, 9 Feb 1995 14:04:15 +0100 Received: by bonnie.tcd-dresden.de (8.6.8/8.6.6) id NAA25912; Thu, 9 Feb 1995 13:42:19 +0100 From: j@uriah.sax.de (J Wunsch) Message-Id: <199502091242.NAA25912@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de> Subject: Re: Support for SMC8432 PCI ethernet cards? To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Thu, 9 Feb 1995 13:42:19 +0100 (MET) In-Reply-To: <199502090015.TAA05203@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu> from "Wankle Rotary Engine" at Feb 8, 95 07:15:26 pm X-Phone: +49-351-8141 137 Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.sax.de X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 932 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. -- cheers, J"org work: --- no longer --- private: joerg_wunsch@uriah.sax.de Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)