From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat May 5 17: 4:29 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from beastie.saturn-tech.com (beastie.saturn-tech.com [207.229.19.136]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CCD9937B422 for ; Sat, 5 May 2001 17:04:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from drussell@saturn-tech.com) Received: from localhost (drussell@localhost) by beastie.saturn-tech.com (8.11.1/8.11.0) with ESMTP id f460PKu96071 for ; Sat, 5 May 2001 18:25:25 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from drussell@saturn-tech.com) X-Authentication-Warning: beastie.saturn-tech.com: drussell owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 5 May 2001 18:25:20 -0600 (MDT) From: Doug Russell To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: no keyboard In-Reply-To: <20010505154114.F18676@fw.wintelcom.net> 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 On Sat, 5 May 2001, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > Anything is possible, and I have heard of it happening at least > once. One of the other fun things about hot swapping keyboards > is that you can actually damage the connector which can cause a > short on the motherboard if the poor thing detaches then proceeds > to relocate itself across some contacts. Ahh yes... Be very careful plugging in those little PS/2 connectors. That's probably the cause of most burned hot-swapped keyboards. :) If you bend the pins by twisting, then get the wrong pin into the +5.... ZZzzzzzap.. Later...... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message