adding keyboard after reboot with no keyboard ...

[MikeM]

On 4/10/2007 at 11:55 AM Marc G. Fournier wrote:

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|I hate it when a subject doesn't easily present itself ... but ...
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|Is there something that I'm missing, such that if I add a keyboard to
a
|server 
|*after* rebooting it with no keyboard, that will have that keyboard
|recognized?
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|Basically, I have several remote servers, with no keyboards, but if I
need
|a 
|tech to check something on the console (ie. the ethernet went down for
|some 
|reason), when they plug a keyboard back in again, there is no signal
until
|they 
|actually power cycle the machine ... which of course, is too late to
do
|any 
|diagnosis :(
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Configure a serial console?

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/serialconsole-
setup.html