[VoIP] OT: Need help w/Linux

[John Novack]

I have used several different motherboards, considered obsolete by 
todays standards, and DID run into one that, even though Bios settings 
said to ignore, when the machine booted into CentOS it wasn't happy with 
no keyboard and went somewhere I have never seen before.
Adding a keyboard to the machine made the problem go away.
It was a Gateway MB
Pentium III MB's are often available on eBay for next to nothing, and if 
the footprint is standard, easily replaceable.
Also the machine could be booted with a keyboard, then removed. Since 
machines work and survive better when on 24/7 that is another solution.

John Novack


Lee Spenadel wrote:
> Not sure why this is a problem.  I use an old eMachines PC with CentOS 3
> installed on it.  The machine boots normally with no keyboard / mouse
> plugged in.  
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: voip-bounces at ckts.info [mailto:voip-bounces at ckts.info] On Behalf Of
> john jones
> Sent: Sunday, July 01, 2007 10:27 AM
> To: Voice Over IP Tandem for Analog Switches
> Subject: Re: [VoIP] OT: Need help w/Linux
>
> This keyboard business is another reason I switched from a PC to a router to
> host Asterisk.  
>
> John
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Duncan Smith <duncan.b.smith at gmail.com>
> To: Voice Over IP Tandem for Analog Switches <voip at ckts.info>
> Sent: Saturday, June 30, 2007 9:50:38 PM
> Subject: Re: [VoIP] OT: Need help w/Linux
>
> On Sat, Jun 30, 2007 at 11:58:20AM -0700, Mark Rudholm wrote:
>   
>> Worst-case scenario would be that you'd have to leave an old keyboard
>> plugged into it.
>>     
>
> What I do is take an old keyboard, and get rid of all the keys.  Then
> it's just a circuit board on the end of a keyboard cable, but it looks
> like a keyboard to the computer.  You can wrap it in electrical tape
> or heat-shrink tubing, and put it inside the machine (cable through
> the back) to save even more space.
>
>   

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