freebsd without keyboard

luke lgrady at gmail.com
Thu Feb 2 19:10:12 PST 2006


>
> I found the information on this page:
>
> http://www.freebsddiary.org/headless.php



that page refers to freebsd 4.x and you are running 5.x

But looked at my kernel (5.4-stable):
>
> device          atkbdc          # AT keyboard
> controller
> device          atkbd           # AT keyboard
> device          psm             # PS/2 mouse


if you want to run the machine without a keyboard at all your setup will
work. just be
sure to tell the bios not to report keyboard errors. otherwise it will
freeze at a message
from your bios telling you it can't find a keyboard. i'm not sure about
hotswapping
keyboards in 5.x but i assume it works. the safest thing to do is just never
plug a keyboard
in.


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