11-03-2007
Request Help Finding a Kybd, Mouse, Graphics Card
Hi All -
I looked through this forum and a couple of other places without success. Maybe someone here can help. I very recently came into possession of a p520, a 9131-52A. It arrived without documentation, mouse, keyboard, or graphics card.
I managed to get ASMI to work on both DB-9 ports and both HMC ports well and reliably. Per IBM tech support, I reset the entire system back to factory default settings. There is no display of HMC=0 in the LED screen.
My goal at this time is to get to a command line prompt and start working with SMIT and command lines. HMC is not a priority at this time unless I need to to reach a command line.
Tech support reps say an IBM-proprietary keyboard and mouse are needed for use with the on-board USB ports. That's fine. Here is where I need help: I have a list of eight keyboards by part number that are supposedly RS6000 and p-series compatible. I spent most the day yesterday looking for an internet supplier of keyboards without success.
I want to avoid the expense of a fancy KVM if possible (inexpensive might be an option). I prefer direct connections to the server. Where can I find a USB keyboard that will work? Multiple internet dealers have all come up empty. Does anyone have a known working keyboard that they are willing to sell? If you have a IBM-compatible USB mouse and graphics card, I would be interested in those as well. (The sales rep I went through has not a clue where to find them, either.) The USB ports provide power to a Microsoft keyboard and mouse, but evidently, the signals are all wrong.
Any assistance (and maybe a deal) will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
MikeJ
Colorado Springs, CO
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UKBD(4) BSD Kernel Interfaces Manual UKBD(4)
NAME
ukbd -- USB keyboard driver
SYNOPSIS
To compile this driver into the kernel, place the following line in your kernel configuration file:
device ukbd
Alternatively, to load the driver as a module at boot time, place the following line in loader.conf(5):
ukbd_load="YES"
DESCRIPTION
The ukbd driver provides support for keyboards that attach to the USB port. usb(4) and one of uhci(4) or ohci(4) must be configured in the
kernel as well.
CONFIGURATION
By default, the keyboard subsystem does not create the appropriate devices yet. Make sure you reconfigure your kernel with the following
option in the kernel config file:
options KBD_INSTALL_CDEV
If both an AT keyboard USB keyboards are used at the same time, the AT keyboard will appear as kbd0 in /dev. The USB keyboards will be kbd1,
kbd2, etc. You can see some information about the keyboard with the following command:
kbdcontrol -i < /dev/kbd1
or load a keymap with
kbdcontrol -l keymaps/pt.iso < /dev/kbd1
See kbdcontrol(1) for more possible options.
You can swap console keyboards by using the command
kbdcontrol -k /dev/kbd1
From this point on, the first USB keyboard will be the keyboard to be used by the console.
If you want to use a USB keyboard as your default and not use an AT keyboard at all, you will have to remove the device atkbd line from the
kernel configuration file. Because of the device initialization order, the USB keyboard will be detected after the console driver initial-
izes itself and you have to explicitly tell the console driver to use the existence of the USB keyboard. This can be done in one of the fol-
lowing two ways.
Run the following command as a part of system initialization:
kbdcontrol -k /dev/kbd0 < /dev/ttyv0 > /dev/null
(Note that as the USB keyboard is the only keyboard, it is accessed as /dev/kbd0) or otherwise tell the console driver to periodically look
for a keyboard by setting a flag in the kernel configuration file:
device sc0 at isa? flags 0x100
With the above flag, the console driver will try to detect any keyboard in the system if it did not detect one while it was initialized at
boot time.
DRIVER CONFIGURATION
options KBD_INSTALL_CDEV
Make the keyboards available through a character device in /dev.
options UKBD_DFLT_KEYMAP
makeoptions UKBD_DFLT_KEYMAP=fr.iso
The above lines will put the French ISO keymap in the ukbd driver. You can specify any keymap in /usr/share/syscons/keymaps with this
option.
options KBD_DISABLE_KEYMAP_LOADING
Do not allow the user to change the keymap. Note that these options also affect the AT keyboard driver, atkbd(4).
FILES
/dev/kbd* blocking device nodes
EXAMPLES
device ukbd
Add the ukbd driver to the kernel.
SEE ALSO
kbdcontrol(1), ohci(4), syscons(4), uhci(4), usb(4), config(8)
AUTHORS
The ukbd driver was written by Lennart Augustsson <augustss@cs.chalmers.se> for NetBSD and was substantially rewritten for FreeBSD by
Kazutaka YOKOTA <yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp>.
This manual page was written by Nick Hibma <n_hibma@FreeBSD.org> with a large amount of input from Kazutaka YOKOTA
<yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp>.
BSD
November 22, 2006 BSD