From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 25 20:13:00 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 887D816A401 for ; Tue, 25 Apr 2006 20:13:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from brdavis@odin.ac.hmc.edu) Received: from odin.ac.hmc.edu (Odin.AC.HMC.Edu [134.173.32.75]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34FA143D48 for ; Tue, 25 Apr 2006 20:12:59 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from brdavis@odin.ac.hmc.edu) Received: from odin.ac.hmc.edu (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by odin.ac.hmc.edu (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id k3PKCxpJ025181; Tue, 25 Apr 2006 13:12:59 -0700 Received: (from brdavis@localhost) by odin.ac.hmc.edu (8.13.0/8.13.0/Submit) id k3PKCxU3025180; Tue, 25 Apr 2006 13:12:59 -0700 Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2006 13:12:59 -0700 From: Brooks Davis To: Cole Message-ID: <20060425201259.GA24568@odin.ac.hmc.edu> References: <20060425200906.7A35443D45@mx1.FreeBSD.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="17pEHd4RhPHOinZp" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060425200906.7A35443D45@mx1.FreeBSD.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=8.0 tests=none autolearn=no version=2.63 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on odin.ac.hmc.edu Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Keyboard Boot Disable X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2006 20:13:00 -0000 --17pEHd4RhPHOinZp Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 10:10:55PM +0200, Cole wrote: > Hi. >=20 > I have a large amount of servers, and the problem is, that when I need > to plug a keyboard into them, the keyboard is disabled since they > werent booted with a keyboard. > > I was wondering if anyone has some idea of how to disable the keyboard > probe at boot and make it so that the OS thinks that the keyboard is > present even if its not plugged in, so that a keyboard can be plugged > in at any stage, and will function normally. > > Im speaking specifically for ps2 keyboards. Is this even possible, or > are there architecture problems or something else relating to this > that would make this impossible? > > If this is possible, could someone please point me in the correct > direction as to which code I would need to look at to make this > possible? What version of FreeBSD are you running? This hasn't been the case by default for ages. As a warning, PS2 keyboards are not electricaly designed to be hotplug so you may blow your machine up by doing this (says someone who does it all the time). -- Brooks --17pEHd4RhPHOinZp Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFEToLKXY6L6fI4GtQRAgIVAJ4mzFWJth2nwYbhMti2O12HIkAF9wCg38zG hJJJ1ZRY0o5buF4uTXISsxw= =JnjT -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --17pEHd4RhPHOinZp--