From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat May 5 11:40:30 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from herbelot.dyndns.org (s108.dhcp212-28.cybercable.fr [212.198.28.108]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D19A337B423 for ; Sat, 5 May 2001 11:40:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from thierry@herbelot.com) Received: from herbelot.com (multi.herbelot.nom [192.168.1.2]) by herbelot.dyndns.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA53685; Sat, 5 May 2001 20:52:00 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from thierry@herbelot.com) Message-ID: <3AF44907.D1DC4C89@herbelot.com> Date: Sat, 05 May 2001 20:40:07 +0200 From: Thierry Herbelot X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chris Faulhaber Cc: Ingo Flaschberger , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: no keyboard References: <20010505133510.A94399@peitho.fxp.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Chris Faulhaber wrote: > > On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 07:36:07PM +0200, Ingo Flaschberger wrote: > > Hi > > > > i'm not sure if that is the right list, but i hope u could help me. > > > > i'm working at an iap, and we are using freebsd (4.2) boxes as routers. > > normally no keyboard or monitor is attached to the box. > > the problem is, when i connect after the boot a keyboard at the box, it is > > not recognized. at the colocations we often need access to this boxes (not > > remote access). > > is there a solution for this problem? Note : this is a way to kill your keyboard : an AT keyboard is not hot-plug compatible two better solutions : - a KVM (keyboard video mouse) switch (for example, from Blackbox) - a serial console (via console="comconsole" in /boot/loader.conf + the right conf in /etc/ttys -- Thierry Herbelot To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message