Subject: Re: USB->PS/2 adapter
To: Nathan J. Williams <nathanw@mit.edu>
From: None <seebs@plethora.net>
List: port-i386
Date: 03/16/1999 17:17:59
In message <mtu6781qb4c.fsf@planet-zorp.mit.edu>, Nathan J. Williams writes:
> It may well. We have a USB keyboard driver (though I'm not
>sure how easy it is to make the non-X part of the system use that
>keyboard, especially if it's attached after boot time), so if the
>adapter in question is really a USB keyboard widget with a PS/2 input
>port, it could Just Work.
I'll find out in a while, I'm downloading a snapshot and the -current source.
>> The goal is to attach a Kinesis keyboard to a laptop with weird PS/2 ports.
> Out of curiosity, what's weird about the PS/2 ports?
It's a ThinkPad. It has a single port that should work for a PS/2 mouse, and
you can only attach a keyboard using this special Thinkpad-specific splitter,
and then I can't get the mouse running. Could just be that the splitter for
this ThinkPad isn't the same as the splitter for the one I used to use.
*sigh*.
-s