Remote keyboard on Dell DRAC 5 and FreeBSD 6.1

Sam Eaton sam at fqdn.net
Tue Aug 22 19:12:17 UTC 2006


On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 02:53:25PM -0400, Bucky Jordan wrote:
> 
> Sam,
> 
> I've got a 2950 with DRAC5 and have what seems to be the same exact
> issue (running 6.1 amd64 RELEASE). I did notice however that remote
> keyboard/mouse support works fine in Knoppix (v.5)- not sure if that's
> useful information for anyone.

Same thing is true for me - if I boot to other OSes that don't attempt
to 'understand' the DRAC5, then the remote keyboard support works fine
in them too.

> The bce0 mbuf issue is more of a concern for me, but I'd be happy to do
> what I can to help get the issue fixed as well since I happen to have
> the hardware available to me.

I'll reply more on this issue in the other mail - not sure whether the
bce one belongs in -hardware too, but the other discussion/patches have
been in -stable.

Sam.
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