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I'm using a recent iDrac (I think 7.0) on FreeBSD 10-RELEASE

It seems like at the installer the mouse works, however the keyboard 
doesn't seem to work.

Anyone know a workaround to get the keyboard to work via the "virtual 
console" in Dell's iDrac?

thank you,
-Alfred