From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat May 5 11:49:21 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from waste.silverserver.co.at (waste.silverserver.co.at [194.152.178.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 82BBA37B422 for ; Sat, 5 May 2001 11:49:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from if@sil.at) Received: from ikarus (ikarus.sil.at [194.152.178.41]) by waste.silverserver.co.at (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f45IhxX06647 for ; Sat, 5 May 2001 20:43:59 +0200 Date: Sat, 5 May 2001 20:54:18 +0200 (MEST) From: Ingo Flaschberger X-Sender: chaoztc@ikarus To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: no keyboard In-Reply-To: <3AF44907.D1DC4C89@herbelot.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > > 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 i have never killed a keyboard with un / plugging. at linux it works. > > two better solutions : > - a KVM (keyboard video mouse) switch (for example, from Blackbox) cannt do that, to much boxes. > - a serial console (via console="comconsole" in /boot/loader.conf + the we already have serial console at the boxes, but u can't use it if u have no laptop with u. the keyboard an the monitor at the locations are always used at other boxes..( bye, Ingo To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message