Are you guys trying this with the NetBSD driver for the type 3-4-5 driver?  How 
do the Linux guys handle this problem?

Quoting Steinar Hamre <steinarh@stud.fim.ntnu.no>:

> Todd Whitesel <toddpw@best.com> writes:
> 
> > I tried hooking up a DEC-made PS/2 keboard and got the exact same
> > results "keyboard not found, switching to serial" as with the JS-1's
> > included Sun keyboard. (I also tried connecting the mouse in case that
> > had any side effects -- didn't make a difference.)
> 
> The OpenBoot does not know how to access the keyboard. (At least for
> the 2.30 version.) Changing the hardware can't have any effect.
> 
> But, the OpenBoot probably do know how to talk to a sun Type-4 and
> Type-5-keyboard over the exact same chip used for the PS/2
> keyboard. But testing that would require some serious hardware
> hacking.
> 
> > Is everyone's JS-1 colored like a typical SparcStation? According to
> > the FAQ URL above, the one I have is "Mr. Coffee White Case
> > Variation #2" but I note that in the last picture on the page (the
> > lab picture), all of the visible JavaStations look like the
> > non-white-case "Mr. Coffee".
> 
> All we have is purplegrayish, like the one on the picture. 
> 
> > Maybe the white-case versions had hardware bugs? It's already clear from
> > the release note in the shipping carton that it was a developer's early
> > access version.
> 
> Don't think so. The keyboard does not work in the PROM because this
> was never designed to work.
> 
> 	Steinar
> 



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