From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 25 15:47:28 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 63E94807 for ; Fri, 25 Apr 2014 15:47:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5142A13B2 for ; Fri, 25 Apr 2014 15:47:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from Alfreds-MacBook-Pro-9.local (c-76-21-10-192.hsd1.ca.comcast.net [76.21.10.192]) by elvis.mu.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id E7A951A3C53 for ; Fri, 25 Apr 2014 08:47:27 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <535A838F.3000106@freebsd.org> Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2014 08:47:27 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Anyone get FreeBSD/PCBSD working with Dell iDrac, (Alfred Perlstein) References: <535A5A80.8080504@mail.lifanov.com> In-Reply-To: <535A5A80.8080504@mail.lifanov.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2014 15:47:28 -0000 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