On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 10:10:55PM +0200, Cole wrote: > Hi. > > I have a large amount of servers, and the problem is, that when I need > to plug a keyboard into them, the keyboard is disabled since they > werent booted with a keyboard. > > I was wondering if anyone has some idea of how to disable the keyboard > probe at boot and make it so that the OS thinks that the keyboard is > present even if its not plugged in, so that a keyboard can be plugged > in at any stage, and will function normally. > > Im speaking specifically for ps2 keyboards. Is this even possible, or > are there architecture problems or something else relating to this > that would make this impossible? > > If this is possible, could someone please point me in the correct > direction as to which code I would need to look at to make this > possible?
What version of FreeBSD are you running? This hasn't been the case by default for ages. As a warning, PS2 keyboards are not electricaly designed to be hotplug so you may blow your machine up by doing this (says someone who does it all the time). -- Brooks
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