Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 20:03:01 -0500 From: "Simon" <simon@optinet.com> To: "freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.org" <freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.org>, "Jamie Ostrowski" <jamie@getsetnet.net> Subject: Re: Problem with keyboard on FreeBSD Message-ID: <20020315005729.4824437B400@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20020314115743.N28153-100000@floyd.getsetnet.net>
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I say this depends on your motherboard/keyboard. Some will allow you to hot-(un)plug a keyboard/mouse/video and some won't. I've had instances where I had to reboot the server to gain keyboard access. Although, lately, using Supermicro only motherboards, I've never had it happen to me. I can plug/unplug the keyboard as many times as I need to. Of course keyboard is only used for troubleshooting/upgrading OS/accessing BIOS and alike. Everything else is done remotely via ssh, why bother with keyboard? -Simon On Thu, 14 Mar 2002 12:01:53 -0600 (CST), Jamie Ostrowski wrote: > > > > Hi, > > 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 >working again. The problem is that I have to shut the machine down hard in >order to do this, since the keyboard is unresponsive. Obviously the disks >complain when I bring the machine up again, and this is a production >server. If a keyboard accidentaly comes unplugged, is there anything you >can do to get the system to interact with it rather than powering down and >restarting? > > > Thanks, > > - Jamie > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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