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Date:      Fri, 25 Apr 2014 14:20:23 +0100
From:      Tom Evans <tevans.uk@googlemail.com>
To:        Nikolai Lifanov <lifanov@mail.lifanov.com>
Cc:        "freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org" <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Anyone get FreeBSD/PCBSD working with Dell iDrac, (Alfred Perlstein)
Message-ID:  <CAFHbX1LbQbWBGuu7St4gzh3MHueS3CjAj%2Bwqva0TUg1DO5W%2BNQ@mail.gmail.com>
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References:  <mailman.11.1398427200.71272.freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> <535A5A80.8080504@mail.lifanov.com>

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On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 1:52 PM, Nikolai Lifanov
<lifanov@mail.lifanov.com> wrote:
> On 04/25/14 08:00, alfred@freebsd.org wrote:
>> 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
>
> I work with a few iDRAC 7s, as well as 6s, and a large amount of much
> worse remote console types using a FreeBSD 10-RELEASE workstation. I use
> Firefox + Wine with Java installed and it's working out fine with recent
> versions of Wine. You will have a hard time getting remote disks to work
> with a native version of Java (they drop a Linux .so in $HOME at best,
> and nothing at worst).

Or virtualbox and a linux/windows VM works well too.

Cheers

Tom



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