The machine is home (I'm not at the moment) but the PS/2 keyboard does work 
if plugged in...

I'll post the dmesg output tomorrow, along with the name/model of the KVM 
switch...

At 09:27 PM 7/30/2002 +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
>On Tue, Jul 30, 2002 at 03:05:03PM -0400, Steven Grunza wrote:
> > I'm running 1.5.2 on an older PC (200 MHz Pentium).  The BIOS doesn't
> > recognize the USB keyboard I have attached through a KVM switch but NetBSD
> > finds and uses it with a "keyboard" command in the /etc/wscons.conf file
> >
> > My problem is when I switch to the other system on the KVM switch NetBSD
> > panics.
> >
> > I read in the man pages that if the console device is not present a panic
> > will occur; however, I've actually got two console keyboards, one is the
> > PS/2 port (that doesn't have a keyboard plugged in) and the other is
> > through the KVM switch.
>
>Are you sure your PS2 port is detected ?
>Maybe post your dmesg, the panic message, and the ddb backtrace ?
>
>--
>Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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