From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Feb 19 10:31:25 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08E6916A420 for ; Sun, 19 Feb 2006 10:31:25 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from lehmann@ans-netz.de) Received: from avocado.salatschuessel.net (avocado.salatschuessel.net [83.136.81.184]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3664A43D46 for ; Sun, 19 Feb 2006 10:31:23 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from lehmann@ans-netz.de) Received: (qmail 7109 invoked by uid 89); 19 Feb 2006 10:31:21 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO kartoffel.salatschuessel.net) (83.136.81.185) by avocado.salatschuessel.net with SMTP; 19 Feb 2006 10:31:21 -0000 Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2006 11:31:20 +0100 From: Oliver Lehmann To: current@freebsd.org Message-Id: <20060219113120.b7dcbdf0.lehmann@ans-netz.de> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.0 (GTK+ 2.8.12; amd64-portbld-freebsd6.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: attaching a keyboard later X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2006 10:31:25 -0000 Hi, back in the 3.x days It was possible to attach a keyboard later to a system after it was booted up and having it working. If I'm not mistaken this was possible via a boot(8) switch. I can't find a switch in the man page which reads like it does that now. Can someone tell me if it is still possible and maybe what to do? I know that this is sth. you shouldn't do since PS/2 isn't "Plug&Play" but I don't want to attach a keyboard to each system I've running (I even don't have so much keyboards). I only need this in case the system got some problems like my swapper was telling me sth. this night on console but I was unable to find out more since the only thing which worked via network was ping. -- Oliver Lehmann http://www.pofo.de/ http://wishlist.ans-netz.de/