Date: Fri, 04 Dec 1998 13:14:53 -0700 From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> To: Robert Withrow <witr@rwwa.com> Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, Florin Nicolescu <fnicoles@pcnet.pcnet.ro>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD-hackers) Subject: Re: multiple keyboard support Message-ID: <199812042014.NAA41793@harmony.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 30 Nov 1998 10:11:22 EST." <199811301511.KAA13684@spooky.rwwa.com> References: <199811301511.KAA13684@spooky.rwwa.com>
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In message <199811301511.KAA13684@spooky.rwwa.com> Robert Withrow writes: : Along the same lines, does anyone know of a "keyboard eliminator" or : a "dummy keyboard" that will allow me to make headless systems with : motherboards who's bioses insist on having a keyboard to boot? I've seen on the net several schematics and software to make your generic PIC device do this. I looked just now and cound't find them, but it wouldn't be that hard to find. On a related note, you'll likely want to convert the keyboard -> serial and then have a boatload of serial ports. Mike is right about the serial port-less nature of the keyboard. I tried once to have a many -> 1 keyboard port network for console messages and gave up when I found problems with the avareage keyboard port being rather limited to talk to one and only one device, despite being open collector. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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