ukbd0 from dell DRAC5 remote access controller

[Brian A. Seklecki]

On Wed, 9 Aug 2006, John Baldwin wrote:

> On Wednesday 09 August 2006 05:27, Scott Wilson wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm trying to get the keyboard emulation part of Dell's DRAC5 remote
>> access controller working with freebsd.  This is 6.1-RELEASE-p3 and
>> running amd64 port. Can anyone shed some light?
>>


Was there ever an update/progress on this?  I can confirm the problem.

Dell really screwed this one over big time.  This really offsets any 
benefits or props they get for moving IPMI/BMC off the onboard NIC to the 
DRAC NIC >:}

TIA,

~BAS

>>
>> Am I missing something?  Any suggestions?
>
> kbd0 is the keyboard mux, and kbd1 (the USB keyboard) is already
> attached to the mux during boot.  So, it should be working already.
>
> If you want to use ukbd0 by itself, you'll need to detach it from
> the mux first and then attach it to the console.
>
> -- 
> John Baldwin
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