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Date:      Wed, 24 Mar 1999 09:36:49 +0900
From:      Kazutaka YOKOTA <yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp>
To:        Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org, nick.hibma@jrc.it, yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp
Subject:   Re: usb keyboard? 
Message-ID:  <199903240036.JAA16932@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 23 Mar 1999 09:16:24 PST." <199903231716.JAA65429@rah.star-gate.com> 
References:  <199903231716.JAA65429@rah.star-gate.com> 

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> ls -ald /dev/kb*
>crw-------  1 root  wheel  112,   0 Mar 23 23:29 /dev/kbd0
>crw-------  1 root  wheel  112,   1 Mar 23 23:29 /dev/kbd1
>
>muadib#         kbdcontrol -k /dev/kbd1
>kbd1
>    ukbd0, type:generic (3)
>kbdcontrol: unable to set keyboard: Inappropriate ioctl for device
>
>Any clues as to how to switch from standard keyboard device to the 
>usb keyboard?

You need to issue the kbdcontrol command from an vty.  If you are
running it from a serial or network terminal, redirect stdin as follows:

	kbdcontrol -k /dev/kbd1 < /dev/ttyv0

Any vty should work.

Make also sure that "options KBD_INSTALL_CDEV" is in your kernel
configuration file.

Kazu


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