On Wednesday 21 January 2009 12:38:12 am Chad Perrin wrote: > On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 08:16:28PM -0800, Kendall Shaw wrote: > > Do you have a kvm switch that does mouse and keyboard emulation and know > > that it works with freebsd? > > > > I have an iogear kvm switch from around the last time I asked this > > question here years back, that has usually worked with linux, netbsd, > > openbsd, macos and windows. Back then to work with freebsd, each time I > > switched away and back I would login remotely and issue a command to get > > freebsd to recognize the keyboard again. > > > > The newer version of my kvm switch says it has mouse and keyboard > > emulation, but I can't get a straight answer out of them if that means > > the OS can tell that they keyboard has disconnected or not. Do you know? > > Or do you know of a KVM switch, that does that and is suitable for an > > impoverished person's home computing needs? > > > > Also, I read someone's comment on newegg that the mouse emulation only > > emulates 2 buttons. Do you know if that is true?
I am using a Trendnet TK-207 USB switch and it works very well with my system. It switches between FreeBSD and Vista, and I use a zBoard keyboard with my mouse plugged in through the keyboard. I don't have any problems with this KVM, it works greaat. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
