Re: [MLUG] Looking for a USB Keyboard.

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

I've tried.  LAPS loaned me one this morning, but no luck.

According to the Belkin guy the Keyboard actually has to be made to be 
attachable via just such a dongle...  I'm not sure I buy that.... but.. 
there you go.


Bob Avery-Babel wrote:

>Could you use a plain old free ps2 keyboard and use a usb adaptor to plug it in? Surely someone has about a million of both of those lying around. - Bob
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>From: Rick Buford <EMAIL:PROTECTED>
>Reply-To: MLUG Members <EMAIL:PROTECTED>
>Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 16:24:43 -0600
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>>Christian M. Cepel wrote:
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>>>No no...  all those stores have USB keyboards...  Just not ones w/o 
>>>internal USB hubs.  It's the hub that the Belkin KVM is barfing on.
>>>
>>>Spectrum (I guess they're calling themselves 'Tiger Tech') has one for 
>>>$40 *laugh*
>>>
>>>Ratshack was a great suggestion... Thanks.  They do indeed have a 
>>>plain-jane used to order em off pricewatch for $4-$7 generic (this was 
>>>ps/2 back in that day) with no blasted hub and such... but they want 
>>>twice what its worth... for their price I could buy one of the bells 
>>>and whistles, internal hub, all sorts of assignable keys... of course 
>>>it wouldn't work with my system.
>>>
>>>I expect this is the way I'll have to go, assuming they'll honor the 
>>>tax-exemption of the University tax-exempt Pro cards.
>>>
>>>I really don't understand why it's barfing on the Dell keyboard with 
>>>the hub... for goodness sake, when I plug an old mac USB keyboard into 
>>>it, the mouse that's plugged into the keyboard works (so does the 
>>>keyboard), as well as a flash drive.
>>>
>>>Thanks.  At least there's light at the end of this here tunnel.
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>>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?
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