From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 9 14:11:25 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C75316A4D0 for ; Fri, 9 Apr 2004 14:11:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from serv03.inetworx.ch (serv03.inetworx.ch [212.254.227.196]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5602243D1D for ; Fri, 9 Apr 2004 14:11:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dev@eth0.ch) Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by serv03.inetworx.ch (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC1EA252D6F for ; Fri, 9 Apr 2004 23:11:24 +0200 (CEST) Received: from serv03.inetworx.ch ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (serv03.inetworx.ch [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 03063-02-6 for ; Fri, 9 Apr 2004 23:11:24 +0200 (CEST) Received: from serv04.inetworx.ch (serv04.inetworx.ch [212.254.227.197]) by serv03.inetworx.ch (Postfix) with SMTP id 7E8EA252D6E for ; Fri, 9 Apr 2004 23:11:24 +0200 (CEST) Received: from 217.162.71.141 (SquirrelMail authenticated user dev.eth0) by serv04.inetworx.ch with HTTP; Fri, 9 Apr 2004 23:11:24 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <2048.217.162.71.141.1081545084.squirrel@serv04.inetworx.ch> In-Reply-To: <20040409210907.GC12239@ack.Berkeley.EDU> References: <2040.217.162.71.141.1081544680.squirrel@serv04.inetworx.ch> <20040409210907.GC12239@ack.Berkeley.EDU> Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2004 23:11:24 +0200 (CEST) From: dev@eth0.ch To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 Importance: Normal X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at inetworx.ch Subject: Re: FreeBSD on Dell PE 750 X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 09 Apr 2004 21:11:25 -0000 It's a PS/2 keyboard. Dave > On Apr 09, "dev@eth0.ch" wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> I bought a Dell PowerEdge 750 Server with a Perc4 SCSI controller >> recently. I would like to install FreeBSD 5.2.1 on it, however, after >> booting from the CD the keyboard is 'lost'. At the first boot prompt >> (with >> the ASCII-daemon) the keyboard is still present. >> >> Is there a way to work around? I don't need a keyboard at the end >> anyway. > > Is this a usb keyboard? My understanding is that you need to have a ps2 > keyboard at least until you can issue > > kbdcontrol -k /dev/kbd1 > > I also understand that they are working on supportin usb keyboards > as the only keyboard. > >