Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 10:18:31 -0800 (PST) From: Rick Hamell <hamellr@heorot.1nova.com> To: Jacob Ritorto <jritorto@fore.com> Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sun Type6 keyboard? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0112111016090.10578-100000@heorot.1nova.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.42.0112111111520.2862-100000@gravel>
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> 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! I doubt you're going to get it to work. The hardware is too different. It's like you're trying to plug a Serial port directly into a USB port. A similiar discussion was just had on one of the Sun mailing lists. The short answer on that side was don't plug any PC PS/2 stuff into the Sun, as it will fry. Rick ******************************************************************* Rick's FreeBSD Web page http://heorot.1nova.com/freebsd Ace Logan's Hardware Guide http://hw.shatteredcrystal.com ***FreeBSD - The Power to Serve! http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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