From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 5 16:04:38 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id QAA07273 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 5 Sep 1997 16:04:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from awfulhak.demon.co.uk (awfulhak.demon.co.uk [158.152.17.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id QAA07267 for ; Fri, 5 Sep 1997 16:04:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gate.lan.awfulhak.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by awfulhak.demon.co.uk (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id XAA04168; Fri, 5 Sep 1997 23:14:16 +0100 (BST) Message-Id: <199709052214.XAA04168@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: netnology@psinet.net.au cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Keyboard Question In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 05 Sep 1997 10:30:50." <3.0.3.32.19970905103050.0160bc00@mail.psinet.net.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Date: Fri, 05 Sep 1997 23:14:16 +0100 From: Brian Somers Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id QAA07268 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk [.....] > We do this very thing, with both the keyboard and monitor, and it seems to > work fine except for rebooting the machine. If the keyboard is not present > at some stage during the system running, our BSD would not restart, it > would just sit there and wait. The reply we got from Doug White was > > "This happens on some systems, and there isn't much you can do for it. > Blame it on cheap hardware. [.....] Heh :-) I bought a #300 machine to use as a gateway. Not only can you switch the keyboard/monitor to another machine, the gateway can be powered off & on and will boot up fine without them :-P It was the cheapest "reasonably fast" hardware I could find. > Regards > Craig Beasland -- Brian , Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....