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Date:      Tue, 10 Apr 2007 20:21:27 +0400
From:      Boris Samorodov <bsam@ipt.ru>
To:        "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: adding keyboard after reboot with no keyboard ...
Message-ID:  <54447320@srv.sem.ipt.ru>
In-Reply-To: <DB1C681FBA350242795277B4@ganymede.hub.org> (Marc G. Fournier's message of "Tue, 10 Apr 2007 11:55:19 -0300")
References:  <DB1C681FBA350242795277B4@ganymede.hub.org>

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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:
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hint.atkbd.0.flags="0x1"
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WBR
-- 
Boris Samorodov (bsam)
Research Engineer, http://www.ipt.ru Telephone & Internet SP
FreeBSD committer, http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve



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