From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Mar 23 19:36:03 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA24997 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Mon, 23 Mar 1998 19:36:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA24978 for ; Mon, 23 Mar 1998 19:35:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA15012; Mon, 23 Mar 1998 19:29:27 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199803240329.TAA15012@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Warner Losh cc: shimon@simon-shapiro.org, Tom , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Serial Keyboards In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 23 Mar 1998 20:08:52 MST." <199803240308.UAA15837@harmony.village.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1998 19:29:24 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > In message Simon Shapiro writes: > : What our correspondent intends to say is RS-232C (?) keyboard. PC > : keyboards are TTL level only. > > OK. I wasn't precise enough. I have a keyboard that generates > RS-232C or RS-423 level signals that I'd like to connect to a PC-like > thing (most people call them laptops, mine is a Libretto 50CT) that is > currently running FreeBSD. You should be able to use the kbdio abstraction to achieve what you want. As you mentioned, there may be some heavy hacking involved. You may find that the "dual consoles" boot option will let you talk to the bootstrap with minimal hackery. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message