USB Keyboard

[Claude Hopper]

I recently bought a USB keyboard to replace a PS/2 keyboard. I don't
like it when the USB bus hangs and the keyboard is dead so I bought an
adapter that plugs a USB keyboard to a PS/2 port. For some reason that
does not work at all where a previous PS/2 keyboard worked just fine.
What could be the problem?



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Claude Hopper

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[jakdedert]

Claude Hopper wrote:

I recently bought a USB keyboard to replace a PS/2 keyboard. I don't
like it when the USB bus hangs and the keyboard is dead so I bought an
adapter that plugs a USB keyboard to a PS/2 port. For some reason that
does not work at all where a previous PS/2 keyboard worked just fine.
What could be the problem?



The adaptor? Or perhaps the USB doesn't like the keyboard ('USB

bus[sic] hangs and the keyboard is dead')? Sounds like you could have a
bad keyboard....

jak

 

[Puckdropper]

Claude Hopper <boobooililililil@roadrunner.com> wrote in
news:B8CdnVsB4fhRU5zUnZ2dnUVZ_q3inZ2d@giganews.com:

I recently bought a USB keyboard to replace a PS/2 keyboard. I don't
like it when the USB bus hangs and the keyboard is dead so I bought an
adapter that plugs a USB keyboard to a PS/2 port. For some reason that
does not work at all where a previous PS/2 keyboard worked just fine.
What could be the problem?

Some adapters are "dumb", meaning they simply pass the signal through. The
circuitry to handle the switchover would probably be located in a specific
keyboard.

Other adapters require some sort of driver, but you'd have to check with
the manufacturer for that. (I doubt a USB -> PS/2 adapter would require
one.)

Puckdropper
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[William Sommerwerck]

The problem is that a PS/2 keyboard has to be designed to work with a USB
adapter; not all are. This is not true for PS/2 mice, almost all of which
will work with a USB adapter.