From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Dec 4 12:16:02 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA15394 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Fri, 4 Dec 1998 12:16:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id MAA15385 for ; Fri, 4 Dec 1998 12:16:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from imp@village.org) Received: from harmony [10.0.0.6] by rover.village.org with esmtp (Exim 1.71 #1) id 0zm1dR-0000WQ-00; Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:15:29 -0700 Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.9.1/8.8.3) with ESMTP id NAA41793; Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:14:54 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <199812042014.NAA41793@harmony.village.org> To: Robert Withrow Subject: Re: multiple keyboard support Cc: Mike Smith , Florin Nicolescu , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD-hackers) 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> Date: Fri, 04 Dec 1998 13:14:53 -0700 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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