Jens Müller wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I habe an old Keyboard with the old 5 pin jack and I conect this
> through a PS/2 adapter and again through an (active) USB adapter. If I
> start the PC windows does not react to keyboard input.
I take it by "active" you mean that it will accept PS/2 keyboards and allow
them to talk to USB by emulating a USB keyboard, rather than the adaptor you
get in the box with some keyboards (which are designed specifically to work
with USB)?
> Now the strange thing:
> If I connect a normal PS/2 keyboard it works and then I switsch the two
> keyboards fastly and the old one works again!
> Somehow Windows (or the Bios) does just not "know" that there is one
> keyboard attached but once there is one the old one works again.
>
> How can I let the old one work immediately?
> Is there perhaps an electronic cirquit that I can add to activate the
> keyboard or can the problem be solved on software side? (I suppose not
> because in Dos it does not work either.)
DOS has no idea about USB, and therefore cannot talk to USB keyboards. USB
legacy support in the BIOS makes a pretty good attempt at solving this
problem.
> Thank you,
Personally I'd buy a newer keyboard. For ~£25 you can have a lovely
Logitech Internet Navigator. For about a tenner you can have a cheap
logitech keyboard that's still pretty good.
Ben
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