Re: [SLUG] headless servers

[Peter Hardy <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2008-02-06 at 23:54 +1100, Bruce Bruen wrote:
> On an entirely differnet theme.
> 
> Some time ago, it used to be possible to "convince" certain BIOS versions that 
> they had a keyboard attached by shorting the PS/2 pins 3 & 4 with a 100K 
> resistor.  Trying it today with a "certain" (Compaq Presario desktop P3) box, 
> it doesn't seem to work.
> 
> This is a typical Compaq ATX board (and by that I dont mean typical). Anyone 
> got any good ideas?

Many many years ago, Jamie Honan gave a talk at SLUG about a little
microcontroller kit he hacked up to emulate a PS/2 keyboard, to solve
precisely this problem.

http://www.progsoc.uts.edu.au/~jhonan/havr-go/havr-go.html

-- 
Pete