From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Mar 14 16:57:32 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from cobra.acceleratedweb.net (cobra-gw.acceleratedweb.net [207.99.79.37]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4824437B400 for ; Thu, 14 Mar 2002 16:57:29 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 31880 invoked by uid 106); 15 Mar 2002 01:00:17 -0000 Received: from 24-90-123-214.nyc.rr.com (HELO station1) (24.90.123.214) by cobra.acceleratedweb.net with SMTP; 15 Mar 2002 01:00:17 -0000 From: "Simon" To: "freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.org" , "Jamie Ostrowski" Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 20:03:01 -0500 Reply-To: "Simon" X-Mailer: PMMail 2000 Professional (2.10.2010) For Windows 2000 (5.0.2195) In-Reply-To: <20020314115743.N28153-100000@floyd.getsetnet.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Problem with keyboard on FreeBSD Message-Id: <20020315005729.4824437B400@hub.freebsd.org> 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 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