Adam Gleave wrote:
I've been looking at KVM's (on eBay mostly, for price reasons :)).
Anyone have experience with these / any other recommendations?
I've had problems switching back and forth between OpenBSD and Win2k using a Microsoft optical wheel mouse, especially if Win2k initialized the mouse. This was a long time ago (before wsmouse), so I don't know if it's still the case.
Also, is there any major problem of connecting a KVM to another KVM. That is, say connecting a Belkin omnicube to a variety of computers and one other OmniCube KVM which is in turn connected to other computers. That might fix my port problem, hmm.
Belkin's FAQ says no, assuming you're talking about F1D094. If not, look on the back of the KVM, there should be a switch that switches between "top" and "not top". Usually you can only go two layers deep.
I used to use some kind of Belkin KVM (it's not on their web site and I don't feel like digging it out), but I recently got a couple of HP rack-mount KVMs, they emulate keyboard, monitor, mouse even when it's not active. They were "broken", two capacitors in the power supply had dried out. About a half hour with the soldering iron (most of which was spent digging through old boards looking for capacitors) and they work great.
