[Suns-at-Home] PS/2 Keyboards and Suns

[Phillip Tong]

silvercreekvalley wrote:
> Any ideas. I'm using an older version of Solaris 
> incidently - version 2.5.

http://sunsolve.sun.com/handbook_pub/Systems/U5/U5.html

The Ultra 5, according to this page, requires Solaris 2.5.1 hw11/97 as a
minimum - maybe this is part of the problem since you're using Solaris 2.5?

(Note that the same page says that if using Solaris 2.6, hw3/98 is
required - and I can tell you now, if using the 400/440MHz CPU, a
further supplement is required to just install the OS for 2.5.1/2.6).

The unplugging and replugging of the keyboard (and getting the OBP "go"
prompt) is indeed normal.
FYI - so is booting most terminals attached to the console A port when
the Sun system is outputting the console to port A - a Windows PC, SPARC
5 and a Wyse60 terminal have done this to me. (There is an OBP setting
to stop it doing this but I forget which setting has to be changed).

Regards,
Phil.