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Date:      Tue, 11 Dec 2001 10:18:31 -0800 (PST)
From:      Rick Hamell <hamellr@heorot.1nova.com>
To:        Jacob Ritorto <jritorto@fore.com>
Cc:        freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Sun Type6 keyboard?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0112111016090.10578-100000@heorot.1nova.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.42.0112111111520.2862-100000@gravel>

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> the Sun kb was unable to effectively communicate
> to the system.  I hit just about every key, but
> only occasionally did a few little garbage
> characters spew forth.  So there's some protocol
> convusion going down I guess.
> 	Any ideas?  I'm encouraged that the boot
> loader knew there was a kb at least!

	I doubt you're going to get it to work. The hardware is too
different. It's like you're trying to plug a Serial port directly into a
USB port. A similiar discussion was just had on one of the Sun mailing
lists. The short answer on that side was don't plug any PC PS/2 stuff into
the Sun, as it will fry.

	Rick

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