Robert Urban wrote:
Hello,
has anyone else noticed that after booting, the keyboard on a
ProLiant (DL380-G2) with the RILOE (Remote Insight Lights-Out Edition) card
often freezes? If I take the RILOE card out, the kb is always ok.
WARNING: Complete and total speculation (or Wild-A**ed-Guess) ahead!!
Rob Urban
Here's my dmesg:
OpenBSD 3.9 (GENERIC) #617: Thu Mar 2 02:26:48 MST 2006
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC
...
wskbd0 at pckbd0: console keyboard, using wsdisplay0
pms0 at pckbc0 (aux slot)
pckbc0: using irq 12 for aux slot
wsmouse0 at pms0 mux 0
<fact>
OpenBSD tends to get really unhappy if you switch the mouse.
http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq12.html#i386smouse
The symptom is often a complete lock of the keyboard.
</fact>
<WAG>
I'm wondering if the RILOE card (I've never used one, see disclaimer
above) acts as a KVM switch between the physical devices and the RILOE
board. If so..it might cause the symptoms you describe.
IF there is a physical cable that can be unpluged to keep the thing from
providing a PS/2 mouse, do so. I suspect we won't get that lucky.
If there isn't a physical cable, it might be interesting to use ukc> to
disable pms and see if that avoids the problem. I have no idea if that
does solve the "problem" with switching an unused mouse, never thought
to try it before...I'll have to play with that. :)
</WAG>
Nick.
