[rescue] IBM RS/6000 3CT

Carl R. Friend crfriend at rcn.com
Sat Oct 26 09:27:56 CDT 2002


   Sridhar writes:

> There is one problem, however.  AIX < 4 will not support a PS/2 keyboard.
> AIX >= 4 has no problem with a PS/2 keyboard.

   Not completely true.  When the machine powers up, the key mapping on
a standard PS/2 keyboard is wrong, but if you can log in and run the
"dkbdsal" diag program, it'll remap the keys for you - at least on AIX
3.2.5.  I ran an RS/6000 220 for quite some time that way.

> You don't have to use smit.  Smit is just a front end to all the
> configuration commandline utils.

   But it sure does make it easier - and it'll tell you the command
it's going to execute so you can learn from it!

   Cheers.

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