From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Nov 14 5:39: 9 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from hawk-systems.com (hawk-systems.com [161.58.152.235]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C1E937B405 for ; Wed, 14 Nov 2001 05:39:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from cr159591a (cr159591-a.pr1.on.wave.home.com [24.102.18.54]) by hawk-systems.com (8.11.6) id fAEDd2Z95312; Wed, 14 Nov 2001 06:39:03 -0700 (MST) From: dave@hawk-systems.com (Dave) To: "Jason Hunt" , Subject: RE: 2.1.7 FreeBSD Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 08:41:13 -0500 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Importance: Normal 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 To resolve this infrequent but annoying issue, we ended up installing a kvm switch for each bank of servers. Not the best solution from a cost perspective... but prevents any reboots just to gain access to keyboard and mouse for working on the system. KVM switch sends the keyboard and mouse signal when a reboot occurs, and you can plug the actual keybrd, mouse, and monitor into the KVM switch when they are needed to service servers in the rack. Dave >-----Original Message----- >From: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG >[mailto:owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Jason Hunt >Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2001 9:33 PM >To: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG >Subject: Re: 2.1.7 FreeBSD > > >Do realize that this is more of a hardware issue than software. My >experience with keyboards on PC's is like this; > >For AT keyboards (the bigger, older ones) the keyboard will not work if >you boot the machine without a keyboard. As well, the keyboard will not >work if you unplug it and plug it back in, it will not work. I have been >told that this is not true, but I have never seen the opposite of what I >described to have happened. > >For PS2 keyboards (the smaller, news ones, that have the same connectors >as PS2 mice) it will depend on the motherboard. With some [cheaper it >seems] motherboards, the keyboard will not work if the machine is booted >without a keyboard or if the keyboard is unplugged and re-inserted. With >other [more expensive?] motherboards the keyboard works as normal if it is >plugged in after the machine is booted, or if it is removed and >re-inserted. The BIOS setting for if the machine should give an error on >boot without a keyboard MAY have an effect on this, but I have never >really cared too much. :) > >In my experience, Asus motherboards always let me unplug the keyboard and >plug it in later. Gigabit and some other weird ones always seem to not >recognize when the keyboard has been plugged in after the machine is >booted. > >Mice are quite similar it seems as well. > >Just my two cents. > > >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