Date: Fri, 05 Sep 1997 23:14:16 +0100 From: Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org> To: netnology@psinet.net.au Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Keyboard Question Message-ID: <199709052214.XAA04168@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 05 Sep 1997 10:30:50." <3.0.3.32.19970905103050.0160bc00@mail.psinet.net.au>
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> 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.
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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
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Brian <brian@awfulhak.org>, <brian@freebsd.org>
<http://www.awfulhak.org>;
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....
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