Booting without keyboard.

2003-10-06 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi, I have recently installed FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE-p10 on a Intel SE7501WV2 board. I am using a PS2 keyboard without mouse. It works fine. However, when i boot without the keyboard plugged into the system, it is not able to accept the keyboard when i plug in later. Is there a way to turn

Re: Booting without keyboard.

2003-10-06 Thread Mike Jackson
ext [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hi, I have recently installed FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE-p10 on a Intel SE7501WV2 board. I am using a PS2 keyboard without mouse. It works fine. However, when i boot without the keyboard plugged into the system, it is not able to accept the

Re: Booting without keyboard.

2003-10-06 Thread Brian Bobowski
On October 6, 2003 01:16 pm, Mike Jackson wrote: Hi, You could try a USB keyboard. I'm not sure if USB Hotplugging is working in FBSD or not, but it *should* work theoretically. I don't know of any systems that allow PS/2 hotplugging. BR, -- mike USB hotplugging definitely works as of

Re: Booting without keyboard.

2003-10-06 Thread Henrik Hudson
On Monday 06 October 2003 08:16, Mike Jackson wrote: ext [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hi, I have recently installed FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE-p10 on a Intel SE7501WV2 board. I am using a PS2 keyboard without mouse. It works fine. However, when i boot without the keyboard

Re: Booting without keyboard.

2003-10-06 Thread Scott Mitchell
On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 04:16:39PM +0300, Mike Jackson wrote: Hi, You could try a USB keyboard. I'm not sure if USB Hotplugging is working in FBSD or not, but it *should* work theoretically. I don't know of any systems that allow PS/2 hotplugging. I've read (although never actually seen

Re: Booting without keyboard.

2003-10-06 Thread Mike Maltese
Is there a way to turn the keyboard always 'on' so that i can get it to work whenever i plug it in after the system is up and running. In your kernel config, remove any flags for the keyboard device, i.e: device atkbd0 at atkbdc? irq 1 Now build a new kernel, reboot, and it should

Re: Booting without keyboard.

2003-10-06 Thread Ph. Schulz
I've read (although never actually seen myself - so take this with as large a grain of salt as you like) that hotplugging PS/2 peripherals can damage the port you're plugging them into, so I'd be wary about doing this. This is what I've heard, too, but I've never seen a PS/2 port being damaged

Re: Booting without keyboard.

2003-10-06 Thread Manuel Rabade (MiG)
Some years ago I worked as technical service, and i see al least 2 machines with the keyboard port burned because of this :-P, but also i know about too many people that do it and nothing happens ... but i like to do it :-P. On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 01:05:10AM +0200, Ph. Schulz wrote: I've read

Re: Booting without keyboard.

2003-10-06 Thread Manuel Rabade (MiG)
On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 06:38:03PM -0500, MiG wrote: Some years ago I worked as technical service, and i see al least 2 machines with the keyboard port burned because of this :-P, but also i know about too many people that do it and nothing happens ... but i like to do it :-P. I mean, i don't

Re: Booting without keyboard.

2003-10-06 Thread Robert Huff
Ph. Schulz writes: This is what I've heard, too, but I've never seen a PS/2 port being damaged from 'hot plugging' either. This is one of those things where it works ... except when it doesn't, and you fry the port or even the entire motherboard. It's never happened to me (as