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From: Peter Marelas <maral@webnet.com.au>
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Subject: Probing KBD.
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Is there a way of stopping the kernel from probing the keyboard, as I 
have found, if I dont have a keyboard plugged in, it will probe forever, 
and since the bios is set to keyboard "not present" shouldnt freebsd 
recognise this ?

Peter