From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 25 8:52:42 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from leblanc.mirrorimage.net (leblanc.mirrorimage.net [209.192.210.146]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F84F37B405 for ; Wed, 25 Jul 2001 08:52:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from leblanc@leblanc.mirrorimage.net) Received: by leblanc.mirrorimage.net (Postfix, from userid 118) id 6380F6BBF7; Wed, 25 Jul 2001 11:52:25 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 11:52:25 -0400 From: Louis LeBlanc To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: No keyboard at boottime prevents use of keyboard later! Message-ID: <20010725115223.E13342@acadia.ne.mediaone.net> Reply-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.19i X-bright-idea: Lets abolish HTML mail! 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 Russel Lahti solved this problem for me on 7/20: > In your kernel configuration, there is a line: > > device atkbd0 at atkbdc? irq 1 flags 0x1 > > Change it to this: > > device atkbd0 at atkbdc? irq 1 > > That fixed the problem for me. > > -Russell Do this in your kernel config and rebuild your kernel. Problem solved. Lou On 07/25/01 07:20 AM, David Simmons sat at the `puter and typed: > > 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 > -- Louis LeBlanc leblanc@acadia.ne.mediaone.net Fully Funded Hobbyist, KeySlapper Extrordinaire :) http://acadia.ne.mediaone.net ԿԬ Fifth Law of Applied Terror: If you are given an open-book exam, you will forget your book. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message