From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Dec 11 8:17:41 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mailgate.pit.comms.marconi.com (mailgate.pit.comms.marconi.com [169.144.68.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF45C37B419 for ; Tue, 11 Dec 2001 08:17:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailman.pit.comms.marconi.com (mailman.pit.comms.marconi.com [169.144.2.12]) by mailgate.pit.comms.marconi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA13188 for ; Tue, 11 Dec 2001 11:17:10 -0500 (EST) Received: from sol.eng.fore.com (sol.pit.comms.marconi.com [169.144.155.73]) by mailman.pit.comms.marconi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA12640 for ; Tue, 11 Dec 2001 11:17:10 -0500 (EST) Received: from gravel.fore.com (gravel [169.144.87.66]) by sol.eng.fore.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA28407 for ; Tue, 11 Dec 2001 11:17:10 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (jritorto@localhost) by gravel.fore.com (8.10.2+Sun/8.10.2) with ESMTP id fBBGH9303440 for ; Tue, 11 Dec 2001 11:17:10 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: gravel.fore.com: jritorto owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 11:17:09 -0500 (EST) From: Jacob Ritorto X-X-Sender: jritorto@gravel To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sun Type6 keyboard? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org OK, so last night I plugged the Sun kb into the usb on my already headless (serial console) FreeBSD box. I found a fairly busted old PC monitor lying about and watched the boot sequence. The FreeBSD loader thingie said that in fact a keyboard was sensed and began booting with that in mind (the console serial port remained silent). Unfortunately upon completion of boot, the Sun kb was unable to effectively communicate to the system. I hit just about every key, but only occasionally did a few little garbage characters spew forth. So there's some protocol convusion going down I guess. Any ideas? I'm encouraged that the boot loader knew there was a kb at least! --jake P.S. known good Sun kb. On Mon, 10 Dec 2001, Jacob Ritorto wrote: > Hi all, > I'm rather new to PCing, but I greatly > admire your work on FreeBSD. Sadly, though, since > my fingers seem completely out of sorts on PC > keyboards, I've been longing for a way to > interface the Sun unix keyboards to this > wonderfully cheap, fast platform for a while. > Now that Sun uses USB keyboards, the > hardware is in place and so my dream should be > possible. How do I tell FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE to > notice the Sun USB keyboard and treat it as the > console input device? Kernel config file? > Please help as running that SPARCclassic > at home as an X display for the sole purpose of > avoiding 'spoiling' my keyboarding skills is > becoming unbearable.. > > thanks. > > --jake > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message