FreeBSD on Dell PE 750

[Mike Hunter]

On Apr 09, "dev at eth0.ch" wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I bought a Dell PowerEdge 750 Server with a Perc4 SCSI controller
> recently. I would like to install FreeBSD 5.2.1 on it, however, after
> booting from the CD the keyboard is 'lost'. At the first boot prompt (with
> the ASCII-daemon) the keyboard is still present.
> 
> Is there a way to work around? I don't need a keyboard at the end anyway.

Is this a usb keyboard?  My understanding is that you need to have a ps2
keyboard at least until you can issue

kbdcontrol -k /dev/kbd1

I also understand that they are working on supportin usb keyboards
as the only keyboard.