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Date:      Thu, 12 Apr 2007 12:51:23 -0400
From:      "MikeM" <the.lists@mgm51.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: adding keyboard after reboot with no keyboard ...
Message-ID:  <200704121251230164.005A651D@sentry.24cl.com>
In-Reply-To: <DB1C681FBA350242795277B4@ganymede.hub.org>
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On 4/10/2007 at 11:55 AM Marc G. Fournier wrote:

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|I hate it when a subject doesn't easily present itself ... but ...
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|Is there something that I'm missing, such that if I add a keyboard to
a
|server 
|*after* rebooting it with no keyboard, that will have that keyboard
|recognized?
|
|Basically, I have several remote servers, with no keyboards, but if I
need
|a 
|tech to check something on the console (ie. the ethernet went down for
|some 
|reason), when they plug a keyboard back in again, there is no signal
until
|they 
|actually power cycle the machine ... which of course, is too late to
do
|any 
|diagnosis :(
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Configure a serial console?

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/serialconsole-
setup.html







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