From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 25 6:14:10 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from tardis.nu (tardis.nu [216.241.39.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71D4737B403 for ; Wed, 25 Jul 2001 06:14:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from simmons@davidsimmons.com) Received: from localhost (simmons@localhost) by tardis.nu (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id f6PDK0p08748 for ; Wed, 25 Jul 2001 07:20:00 -0600 Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 07:20:00 -0600 (MDT) From: David Simmons X-Sender: simmons@tardis.nu To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: No keyboard at boottime prevents use of keyboard later! Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG If a keyboard is not present when FreeBSD boots, a keyboard cannot be plugged in later and used. This is a real nuisance in a server environment where machines need to run headless, but also need to be keyboardable when a keyboard/video cart is wheeled over to examine the machine. I'm guessing that the OS is defaulting to using the serial port as a console, preventing the use of the keyboard as a console. I don't know how to disable this behavior. I realize that a serial console scheme would be cleaner overall, and I'm planning such a scheme, but it would be nice in the meantime to not have to power cycle machines that become unreachable on the network. I'm using 4.3-STABLE. Thanks for any assistance. David -- David Simmons Waltham, Massachusetts, USA "Today is a fine day for science!" -- Dexter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message