From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 15 21:04:59 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B17E01065673 for ; Thu, 15 Apr 2010 21:04:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from Jessie.Xu@cryptologic.com) Received: from postoffice.cryptologic.com (postoffice.cryptologic.com [206.186.114.128]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86B6E8FC21 for ; Thu, 15 Apr 2010 21:04:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from BLACKJACK.cryptologic.com ([10.3.2.219]) by postoffice.cryptologic.com (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id o3FKb7sU084522 for ; Thu, 15 Apr 2010 16:37:07 -0400 (EDT) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5 Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2010 16:26:01 -0400 Message-ID: X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: console no responding to key in. Thread-Index: Acrc2dw/679oJ3fITsyHwkomvsf0ng== From: "Jessie Xu" To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Subject: console no responding to key in. 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: Thu, 15 Apr 2010 21:04:59 -0000 To whom it concerns: =20 I am an unix administrator, am responsible for our company's unix servers: there are some running FreeBSD (ver 4.10, 4.11, etc). We I tried to connect to the console by connecting a LCD & keyboard. I found some consoles are responding the key typing, some are just like a dead session - no responding to key typing at all.=20 =20 I must fix the problem since I need console login with root. Any insight on this? thanks.=20 Our machines are Dell PowerEdge 2650 (2U rack mountable) , come with Video port, PS2 keyboard/Mouse ports, and two Serial ports. -- I also tried the serial ports for console access, no lucky. =20 My question is: why some machines' LCD console is hang while some are good. the consoles with hang problem show Unix error message on the console, but I don't think this could cause the console hang.=20 =20 I also checked the BIOS, the good ones have same setting wit bad ones. =20 Jessie Xu Unix Administrator jessie.xu@cryptologic.com desk phone: 416 545 1453 x 5618 Skype: Jessie.xu972 =20 =20