On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 10:49 AM, Robby Andrews <[email protected]> wrote:
> For reference also: > > Skylake chipsets do not contain the EHCI controller: > http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/io/universal-serial- > bus/ehci-removal-6th-gen-core-pch-technical-paper.html > > > Thanks all. I ended up just putting one of the hard drives in a different (older) computer and installing SmartOS on it with that, editing the /usbkey/config file to put in the server's MAC address, and swapping the drive back, then booting up SmartOS and I could SSH in. It confirmed that the problem was indeed with the USB, as suspected, as the system runs fine, keyboards just don't work on it. Thanks for all the suggestions of how to do it, I had a few ways and this seemed the easiest to me. Although I was tempted to dig up one of the 30 year old dumb terminals we have somewhere and hook it up to the serial port! I ordered a USB 2.0 PCI Express card and so hopefully that will work OK with the keyboard, as it makes me more comfortable to be able to actually physically log on to the box if necessary, not just over SSH. Hopefully this XHCI stuff will be finished soon, since with Skylake removing the EHCI controller it seems as though most new hardware will not function with SmartOS until that is done. Nick ------------------------------------------- smartos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/184463/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/184463/25769125-55cfbc00 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=25769125&id_secret=25769125-7688e9fb Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
