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Hooking a keyboard to a Laptop
Name: drweird13 Date: October 17, 2004 at 15:12:35 Pacific OS: Winblows XP CPU/Ram: 1.4mhz/512mb ram
Comment:
I have a IBM T21 Laptop. It comes with a docking station, that lets you hook a keyboard to it. The laptop it self does not have a keyboard input (ps/2). It does have a ps/2 port for the mouse(on the laptop).
I have a ps/2 to serial converter that i would like to hook a keyboard through. So basically i am hooking a keyboard to my laptop's serial port. Is that posiable? It shows up as PCI Serial Port in device manager, how would i get it to see it as a keyboard?
Name: Krystyna Date: October 18, 2004 at 04:15:36 Pacific
Reply:
A PS/2 port on a laptop will accept either a mouse OR a keyboard.
If the laptop has a USB port, you could connect a mouse to USB, and a keyboard to PS/2.
Krystyna
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Response Number 2
Name: drweird13 Date: October 18, 2004 at 14:16:02 Pacific
Reply:
I guess my laptop doesn't know that, when i do hook my keyboard to the mouse PS/2 on the back of the laptop, it thinks the keyboard is the mouse, and i can actually move the mouse by hitting a lot of keys on the keyboard together.
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Response Number 3
Name: Krystyna Date: October 18, 2004 at 22:54:52 Pacific
Reply:
Try this... Go to Device Manager and look under "Mice..." Remove the item referring to PS/2 mouse. Turn off the laptop, and remove the PS/2 mouse. Hook up your external keyboard to the PS/2 port. Hook up a USB mouse. Then reboot.
Any joy ?
Krystyna
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Response Number 4
Name: Krystyna Date: October 18, 2004 at 23:12:35 Pacific
Reply:
Hi drweird13
Did some research on Google, and it seems that some IBM Thinkpads need a Y-splitter PS/2 cable, in order to use both a PS/2 mouse and keyboard.
Maybe IBMs have an issue with PS/2 inter-changeability ?
The PS/2 Y-splitter for an IBM might just have to be a genuine IBM one though ! Which means 3 times the price of a garden-variety one !!
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