From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 6 06:23:14 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CCE7B16A4B3 for ; Mon, 6 Oct 2003 06:23:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fep1.cogeco.net (smtp.cogeco.net [216.221.81.25]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD4D843FEC for ; Mon, 6 Oct 2003 06:23:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bbobowski@cogeco.ca) Received: from d150-57-33.home.cgocable.net (d150-57-33.home.cgocable.net [24.150.57.33]) by fep1.cogeco.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 92CC2582B; Mon, 6 Oct 2003 09:23:12 -0400 (EDT) From: Brian Bobowski To: Mike Jackson , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2003 09:23:10 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 References: <20031006033138.14059.qmail@web21307.mail.yahoo.com> <20031006131639.GB3467@isorauta.ntc.nokia.com> In-Reply-To: <20031006131639.GB3467@isorauta.ntc.nokia.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200310060923.10083.bbobowski@cogeco.ca> Subject: Re: Booting without keyboard. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2003 13:23:14 -0000 On October 6, 2003 01:16 pm, Mike Jackson wrote: > Hi, > You could try a USB keyboard. I'm not sure if USB Hotplugging is > working in FBSD or not, but it *should* work theoretically. > > I don't know of any systems that allow PS/2 hotplugging. > > BR, > -- > mike USB hotplugging definitely works as of 5.1-CURRENT; I've swapped my mouse and trackball into different ports a number of times, and they work right away. However, I don't know if this is the case as of 4.8. If you have (other) USB peripherals, it might be worth trying a hotplug to see if it works. -BB