Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2006 21:10:08 -0600 From: luke <lgrady@gmail.com> To: gahn <ipfreak@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd general questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: freebsd without keyboard Message-ID: <5fee5e300602021910u4ccdf216n5c897722832f465b@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20060203030150.61030.qmail@web52110.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20060203030150.61030.qmail@web52110.mail.yahoo.com>
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> > I found the information on this page: > > http://www.freebsddiary.org/headless.php that page refers to freebsd 4.x and you are running 5.x But looked at my kernel (5.4-stable): > > device atkbdc # AT keyboard > controller > device atkbd # AT keyboard > device psm # PS/2 mouse if you want to run the machine without a keyboard at all your setup will work. just be sure to tell the bios not to report keyboard errors. otherwise it will freeze at a message from your bios telling you it can't find a keyboard. i'm not sure about hotswapping keyboards in 5.x but i assume it works. the safest thing to do is just neve= r plug a keyboard in.
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