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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Bootloader hangs without a keyboard
Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2018 15:49:55 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180408154955.21f463f8@digimed.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1677600.nyQyTMj4OW@thetick>

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On Sun, 08 Apr 2018 15:18:21 +0200, Marc Joliet wrote:

> > Yeah, I did hear about those while researching the problem (forgot to
> > mention, sorry), but thanks for pointing out how cheap they are.  
> 
> Ugh, I misread, yeah, of course those exist and are cheap (sadly I only
> have USB->PS/2 adapters).  I thought I had read about so-called
> keyboard simulators, which I interpreted to mean a USB dongle that
> pretends to be an input device, but ATM I cannot find any evidence of
> them actually existing,

Use the dongle from a wireless keyboard.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

WITLAG: The delay between delivery and comprehension of a joke.

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  reply	other threads:[~2018-04-08 14:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-04-07 23:18 [gentoo-user] Bootloader hangs without a keyboard Marc Joliet
2018-04-08  0:18 ` mad.scientist.at.large
2018-04-08 12:11   ` Marc Joliet
2018-04-08 13:18     ` Marc Joliet
2018-04-08 14:49       ` Neil Bothwick [this message]
2018-04-08 15:45         ` Marc Joliet
2018-04-08 15:47           ` R0b0t1
2018-04-08 18:04             ` Neil Bothwick
2018-04-08 19:55               ` R0b0t1
2018-04-08 11:35 ` Wols Lists
2018-04-08 12:48   ` Marc Joliet
2018-04-09  4:18     ` Walter Dnes
2018-04-10 11:00       ` Marc Joliet

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