From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Dec 11 9:26:58 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from heorot.1nova.com (heorot.1nova.com [63.105.24.23]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27F2737C083 for ; Tue, 11 Dec 2001 09:20:31 -0800 (PST) Received: by heorot.1nova.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id CFDDC18F1; Tue, 11 Dec 2001 10:18:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by heorot.1nova.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE4F918F0; Tue, 11 Dec 2001 10:18:31 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 10:18:31 -0800 (PST) From: Rick Hamell To: Jacob Ritorto Cc: 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 > 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