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geekhack Community => Keyboards => Topic started by: jkercado on Sun, 01 January 2012, 21:35:34

Title: Does the Dell AT101W works with regular dumb PS/2 to USB adapter?
Post by: jkercado on Sun, 01 January 2012, 21:35:34

Title says it all...I've searched the forum (and yes, the Wikis) and couldn't find this simple piece of info.

Title: Does the Dell AT101W works with regular dumb PS/2 to USB adapter?
Post by: Findecanor on Sun, 01 January 2012, 21:57:22

No. Dumb cheap PS/2 to USB adapters are for keyboards who support USB and PS/2 on the same cable. They are just two connectors wired together in the same package. For these keyboards, the opposite is more common, though: USB connector on the keyboard's end and PS/2 on the host's.

You need an active PS/2 to USB adapter with conversion circuitry in it to connect the AT101W to a USB port. Read more in the PS2 to USB adapters Wiki (http://geekhack.org/showwiki.php?title=PS2-to-USB+adapters).

Title: Does the Dell AT101W works with regular dumb PS/2 to USB adapter?
Post by: jkercado on Sun, 01 January 2012, 22:14:10

Thanks. I already have a Blue Cube for adapter duties that I bought when I got my Model M, but I just wondered if the Dell, being a more recent unit, would work with the simpler unit.