From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 10 16:21:27 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7135016A402 for ; Tue, 10 Apr 2007 16:21:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bsam@ipt.ru) Received: from mail.ipt.ru (mail.ipt.ru [80.253.10.82]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 297A313C43E for ; Tue, 10 Apr 2007 16:21:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bsam@ipt.ru) Received: from stat.sem.ipt.ru ([192.168.12.1] helo=ipt.ru) by mail.ipt.ru with esmtp (Exim 4.62 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1HbJ5u-000LG6-Jh; Tue, 10 Apr 2007 20:21:22 +0400 Received: from bsam by ipt.ru with local (Exim 4.63 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1HbJ5z-0002l9-LD; Tue, 10 Apr 2007 20:21:27 +0400 To: "Marc G. Fournier" References: From: Boris Samorodov Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 20:21:27 +0400 In-Reply-To: (Marc G. Fournier's message of "Tue, 10 Apr 2007 11:55:19 -0300") Message-ID: <54447320@srv.sem.ipt.ru> User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: adding keyboard after reboot with no keyboard ... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 16:21:27 -0000 On Tue, 10 Apr 2007 11:55:19 -0300 Marc G. Fournier wrote: > I hate it when a subject doesn't easily present itself ... but ... > Is there something that I'm missing, such that if I add a keyboard to a server > *after* rebooting it with no keyboard, that will have that keyboard recognized? > Basically, I have several remote servers, with no keyboards, but if I need a > tech to check something on the console (ie. the ethernet went down for some > reason), when they plug a keyboard back in again, there is no signal until they > actually power cycle the machine ... which of course, is too late to do any > diagnosis :( Adding to /boot/device.hints may help: ----- hint.atkbd.0.flags="0x1" ----- WBR -- Boris Samorodov (bsam) Research Engineer, http://www.ipt.ru Telephone & Internet SP FreeBSD committer, http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve