Date: Sat, 05 May 2001 20:40:07 +0200 From: Thierry Herbelot <thierry@herbelot.com> To: Chris Faulhaber <jedgar@fxp.org> Cc: Ingo Flaschberger <if@sil.at>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: no keyboard Message-ID: <3AF44907.D1DC4C89@herbelot.com> References: <Pine.SOL.4.21.0105051931560.16630-100000@ikarus> <20010505133510.A94399@peitho.fxp.org>
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Chris Faulhaber wrote: > > On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 07:36:07PM +0200, Ingo Flaschberger wrote: > > Hi > > > > i'm not sure if that is the right list, but i hope u could help me. > > > > i'm working at an iap, and we are using freebsd (4.2) boxes as routers. > > normally no keyboard or monitor is attached to the box. > > the problem is, when i connect after the boot a keyboard at the box, it is > > not recognized. at the colocations we often need access to this boxes (not > > remote access). > > is there a solution for this problem? Note : this is a way to kill your keyboard : an AT keyboard is not hot-plug compatible two better solutions : - a KVM (keyboard video mouse) switch (for example, from Blackbox) - a serial console (via console="comconsole" in /boot/loader.conf + the right conf in /etc/ttys -- Thierry Herbelot To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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