Subject: Re: Vaxstation 4000/60 LCG and keyboard, progress report & help needed
To: Blaz Antonic <blaz.antonic@siol.net>
From: Chris Wareham <chris.wareham@iosystems.co.uk>
List: port-vax
Date: 01/30/2004 13:32:53
Blaz Antonic wrote:
> 
> Second question is directly related to the login prompt as well; i use
> serial terminal or telnet session to login into my Vax at the moment so
> i never fiddled around with keyboard (which Anders kindly sent along,
> thanks Anders !!!) except at >>> prompt.
> 
> 2: How do i get my keyboard to work ? If anybody ever got a keyboard
> working on a Vaxstation class machine with NetBSD please let me know
> how.  I have a distinct feeling that despite lkkbd0 line in kernel
> output i haven't done everything corerctly. Keyboard works fine while at
> 
> >>> prompt but doesn't do anything at ttyw0 login prompt. I'm a BSD
> newbie, something that might seem obvious to you might have been
> overloked by me.
> 

I just reread your post and saw that I'd overlooked this part. On all
the 3100 and 4000 series Vaxen that I've owned, the keyboard would only
work if I set the boot flags to one. This aborts the autobooting of a
kernel, but I just do "boot netbsd" and confirm the mount points. At the
three chevrons do:

 >>> SET BFLG 1

If there's a more elegant solution that doesn't require intervention
when booting, then I'd love to know what it is.

Chris
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