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Date:      Fri, 25 Apr 2014 08:47:27 -0700
From:      Alfred Perlstein <alfred@freebsd.org>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Anyone get FreeBSD/PCBSD working with Dell iDrac, (Alfred Perlstein)
Message-ID:  <535A838F.3000106@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <535A5A80.8080504@mail.lifanov.com>
References:  <mailman.11.1398427200.71272.freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> <535A5A80.8080504@mail.lifanov.com>

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On 4/25/14 5:52 AM, Nikolai Lifanov 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).
Thanks Nikolai,

The problem I am having is that keyboard does not work with either PCBSD 
10 or FreeBSD 10 over the iDrac console.  PCBSD freaks out and loses the 
root fs AND I can't type.  FreeBSD on the other hand only loses the 
keyboard (although mouse works).

We happen to be using the native active X on Windows as the Java stuff 
seems not to work.

Any ideas?

thank you,
-Alfred




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