On Mar 4, 12:09*pm, and...@cucumber.demon.co.uk (Andrew Gabriel)
wrote:
> In article <3cf86244-b758-4b1a-88ee-6afccd002...@e6g2000prf.googlegroups.com>,
> * * * * "BertieBigBol...@gmail.com" <BertieBigBol...@gmail.com> writes:
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> > On Mar 4, 10:54*am, and...@cucumber.demon.co.uk (Andrew Gabriel)
> > wrote:
> >> In article <801416cf-432d-4328-8de2-33607339c...@13g2000hsb.googlegroups.com>,
> >> * * * * "BertieBigBol...@gmail.com" <BertieBigBol...@gmail.com>writes:
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> >> > Installed Solaris 9 on my Blade 1500 to which is attached a standard
> >> > UK USB PC keyboard and mouse.
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> >> > Trouble is its not working properly. For starters (and most
> >> > importantly!) I cant get the pipe character - instead I get ^@ when I
> >> > hit the pipe key.
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> >> > Any ideas?
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> >> Try the ~ key ;-)
> > Same.
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> Might not be just a misidentified keyboard problem.
> (I should have said ~ character, i.e. shift-~)
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> >> Was the keyboard plugged in when system was powered up? If not, try
> >> doing that.
> > Yes. Was connected.
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> >> Don't have a Blade 1500 to try this out on and I'm not sure how this
> >> is supposed to work (I thought USB keyboards were self-identifying),
> >> but you might try: eeprom keyboard-layout=UK-English
> >> and reboot.
> > I assume you mean that this command is from the OK prompt? No joy...
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> No, it's from the Solaris command line.
> You can achieve the same from the OK prompt too,
> but I'm not sure what the syntax is for that.

Nope. Doesnt work :-(.

Man pages for eeprom dont mention keyboard-layout as one of the
parameters. Only thing similar is keymap.

BTW - Shift-~ gives the same.