Re: [MLUG] Looking for a USB Keyboard.

["Christian M. Cepel" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Rick Buford wrote:

> I guess I'm confused. You have a Dell USB hub that won't work with a 
> "standard" USB keyboard (the kind with their own internal hub and 
> usually a connection or two on the kb itself)? Would it be easier to 
> just replace the Dell hub?
>
Nope.

I have, attached to the PC & the Mac, a Belkin USB KVM (Keyboard Video 
Monitor switcher for two machines that uses USB instead of PS/2)

To that I have attached my secondary PC monitor, my lovely new Logitech 
wireless trackball, and......

Here's the problem.  I need a USB keyboard that works.

I've borrowed an old translucent squished down USB keyboard with the 
damnably stupid perfectly round USB mouse that attaches to it.   They 
both work, EVEN when daisy-chained like that.  George Robb says this is 
a USB 1.1 device, and that's probably why it works.

The Lovely Dell keyboard, with useful extra keys does not work.  It 
works in both the Mac and the PC, and even the fancy extra buttons work 
(on pc), but when I plug it into the KVM, it fails to install properly 
and is unusable.  The reason?  The device installs in 2k as the 
following...
1. USB composite device
2. Generic USB hub
3. (under the keyboard group) an HID  (Human Interface Device)

When its plugged in on it's own.  When it comes through the KVM, windows 
recognizes it as a Generic USB hub, and fails to install even that 
correctly.  If I understood George correctly, this keyboard is USB 2 
compliant.

When I call Belkin they snottily tell me that a keyboard that has 
extras, like a hub absolutely won't work because they use USB-PS/w-USB 
manipulation within the device itself.... Never mind the fact that the 
Mac keyboard which hubs two extra ports works fine.  Never mind that 
this little caveat is nowhere on the packaging or product details...

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|Christian Marcus Cepel           | And the wrens have returned &
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University of Missouri-Columbia  | born again. --Rich Mullins|

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