Losing keyboard after extended wait on USB KVM

Alfred Perlstein alfred at freebsd.org
Wed Dec 10 08:03:45 PST 2008


* Chris Coleman <chrisc at vmunix.com> [081209 13:32] wrote:
> I've got a 16 port USB IP KVM switch that I've got about 8 FBSD 7.0
> machines plugged into. When I first plug them in, everything is great.
> However, after a couple of days, or maybe less, I switch back to one
> of the FBSD machines to do some maintenance and it is unresponsive.
> There is nothing wrong with the machine, because I can use the VPN and
> ssh into them.  It appears that the USB connection to the KVM switch
> has disappeared.  Unplugging and re-plugging in the USB connection
> fixes the problem, but that is problematic since I have to call the
> datacenter and have them do it each time I need KVM access.
> 
> Any thoughts on where I would start troubleshooting this problem?

any chance you can give the new usb stack a shot?

it might be installable on -stable.

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- Alfred Perlstein


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