Re: PS/2 - USB Adaptor for keyboard
* Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> [070302 01:42]:
> I'm trying to use a simple (cheap) PS/2 keyboard with a laptop which
> has no PS/2 ports. There are various PS/2 - USB available all over the
> internet; I bought a cheap one on Ebay. It is a very simple little
> thing, and I don't think it has any sort of electronics inside, and it
> doesn't seem to work. The keyboard is not recognized at all, neither in
> the console nor in X, it doesn't appear in the output of lsusb, and it
> isn't recognized by MS Windows either. Does anyone know anything about
> these things? Do they only work with certain types of keyboards? Do I
> need to configure anything in software? Should I suspect that mine is
> defective?
Correct; there are no electronics in the PS2->USB adapter. A few
years back, a PS2 adapter often was included with a USB mouse.
It is likely that all you need to do is use the BIOS setup screen to
enable the external keyboard and/or mouse. Once that is done, X and
Window$ should see them.
Also, any USB keyboard -- including keyboards for the Macintosh --
should work fine with your laptop. I am using a Macintost USB
keyboard with my desktop PC; it appears to be of much higher
mechanical quality than anything else I saw in the PC department of
the computer store.
RLH
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