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From: ht@chestnut.ling.upenn.edu (Henry S. Thompson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: 1.5.1 boot-time queries: no ep0, Gateway kbd numlock
Date: 09 May 1995 12:56:28 GMT
Organization: University of Pennsylvania
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Distribution: world
Message-ID: <HT.95May9085628@chestnut.ling.upenn.edu>
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I'm currently living with but wishing I didn't have to two problems at
boot time:
1) I'm temporarily disconnected from the Ethernet, but don't
particularly wish to rebuild the kernel without the ep0 driver -- is
there any way to avoid sitting on my hands for 30 seconds every time I
boot while the initialisation times out?
2) As far as I can tell something in the initial probe of my Gateway
2000 keyboard during the device initialisation during the FreeBSD boot
sequence re-sets NumLock (I know this is an on-going saga), i.e. even
if it's off before then it gets set back on, so I have only a narrow
window to get it off again by hand or the keyboard is effectively dead
when it finally comes up for login.
Maybe these are both fixed/fixable only in 2...., in which case I'm
stuck, but if there are simple fixes for someone stuck in 1.5.1 I'd be
grateful to hear them.
thanks
ht
--
Henry S. Thompson, Human Communication Research Centre, University of Edinburgh
Visiting Fellow at Institute for Research in Cognitive Science
University of Pennsylvania, 3401 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6228
Phone: (+1) 215 898-0366 Fax: (+1) 215 573-9247 Email: ht@unagi.cis.upenn.edu