From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Mar 14 10:25:57 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from misery.sdf.com (misery.sdf.com [207.200.153.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A86537B417 for ; Thu, 14 Mar 2002 10:25:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from tom (helo=localhost) by misery.sdf.com with local-esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 16lZH6-0005ky-00; Thu, 14 Mar 2002 09:44:24 -0800 Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 09:44:23 -0800 (PST) From: Tom Samplonius To: Jamie Ostrowski Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Problem with keyboard on FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <20020314115743.N28153-100000@floyd.getsetnet.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 14 Mar 2002, Jamie Ostrowski wrote: > I am running FreeBSD 4.5 RELEASE on an x86 hardware based server. If > the keyboard happens to come unplugged, upon plugging it back in there is > no response from the system. I have to reboot for the keyboard to start ... It is primarily a hardware issue. Most PS2 hardware acts this way, regardless of the OS. Windows 2000 does the same thing. Either leave the keyboard connected all the time, or leave it disconnected all the time. You could always try a USB keyboard! You can use a network login to shut your system down cleanly. Tom To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message