kernel tunable

[Lowell Gilbert]

Lee Lispon <lee at pogg.net> writes:

> I have a dell poweredge server with a Remote Access Card installed. I 
> successfully installed FreeBSD 4.10 on this system and it works great.
> Unfortunately the RAC card does not accept input from a remote keyboard
> when there is not a local keyboard installed. I beleive this is because
> the kernel does not detect the keyboard and disables it and then switches
> the console to the serial device. My question is how do I force the 
> keyboard to always be enabled? I am not positive where I would do this
> and what the flag would be. Perhaps atkdb=0x01 ???

The driver documentation ("man atkbd") shows how to configure a new
kernel to do this.  It also mentions that the boot process can set the
variable without needing to compile a kernel.

-- 
Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area
		http://be-well.ilk.org:8088/~lowell/