Re: KVM switch - keyboard

2013-02-10 Thread Bastien Durel
Quoting Kent Fritz : Just a data point...one of the boxes I've tried (can't remember which of Foxconn nt535, nt-i1250, nt-i2847) had a similar/same problem. About 30%-50% of the time when I switched to it, no kernel messages on the screen, no keyboard. I found that plugging in a USB flash drive

Re: KVM switch - keyboard

2013-02-10 Thread Kent Fritz
Just a data point...one of the boxes I've tried (can't remember which of Foxconn nt535, nt-i1250, nt-i2847) had a similar/same problem. About 30%-50% of the time when I switched to it, no kernel messages on the screen, no keyboard. I found that plugging in a USB flash drive caused both the flash d

Re: KVM switch - keyboard

2013-02-09 Thread Bastien Durel
Quoting Francois Pussault : Hi, many hardware cannot manage USB keyboards without it present at boot. because bios or equiv doesn't enable the port so the OS (whatever it is) cannot use it. [...] a solution could be to have an usb-test device connected to garantee usb is enable even if kvm i

Re: KVM switch - keyboard

2013-02-09 Thread Antoine Jacoutot
On Sat, Feb 09, 2013 at 08:22:26PM +0100, Francois Pussault wrote: > > > > From: Bastien Durel > > Sent: Fri Feb 08 23:13:42 CET 2013 > > To: > > Subject: KVM switch - keyboard > > > > > > Hello, > >

Re: KVM switch - keyboard

2013-02-09 Thread Francois Pussault
> > From: Bastien Durel > Sent: Fri Feb 08 23:13:42 CET 2013 > To: > Subject: KVM switch - keyboard > > > Hello, > > I use a KVM switch to control various computers, including my OpenBSD > 5.2 router. > If I boot

KVM switch - keyboard

2013-02-09 Thread Bastien Durel
Hello, I use a KVM switch to control various computers, including my OpenBSD 5.2 router. If I boot with console attached to the OpenBSD computer, it works well, I'm able to control it, login, etc. But when I switch to another computer, then back to OpenBSD, I get display but no keyboard. The KVM d