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geekhack Community => Keyboards => Topic started by: lost eden on Thu, 10 December 2009, 20:30:49
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I've got 2x Cherry G80-3000HSMGB/05, one of which I use at home on my desktop which has PS/2 ports. I'd like to keep the other one in the lab at university to use with my laptop, however my laptop doesn't have a PS/2 port. Are there any adapters that will allow me to connect the G80 to a USB port successfully? I presume that the board isn't dual-mode, otherwise it would probably have a USB plug on the end of the cable instead of a PS/2, so it will probably need an active adapter?
Also, my laptop is a Mac, which in my experience has rather dreadful keyboard support. The internal keyboard is a non-standard layout so I ended up putting stickers on some of the keys & using a custom keymap to make a standard layout & when I plug in a modern UK USB keyboard (Microsoft Digital Media 1.0A atm) some of the keys still aren't mapped properly - so does anybody have any experience using a standard UK-layout keyboard on OS X, in particular with a PS/2-->USB adapter?
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Search this forum for blue box EDIT: blue cube. That's the ultimate PS/2 to Macintosh adapter, and only $7 too. I have three of em, and they work on every keyboard I've thrown at them.
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That would have to be "Blue Cube", of course. We also have a whole Wiki entry dedicated to these adapters. If you don't feel comfortable ordering a Blue Cube from China, try hunting down the Belkin.
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In Europe, it can be ordered from Cablestar in the UK.
Shop link: http://cablestar.co.uk/products/usb2actvps2-usb-a-male-to-ps2-female-ps2-active-keyboard-adapter.html
Ebay link: http://search.ebay.com/390121070619
I bought a couple from them, quick shipping and zero problems.
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That ebay guy had them for cheap. I'm buying two of them to see what the fuss is about. I figure I owe to Ripster after he got a NIB Model F =P
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Thanks for the input guys, I ordered one of those Blue Cubes from cablestar & it shipped the same day, so hopefully I'll be seeing it sometime early next week.
Now to see if I can get the department to buy me another Kensington Expert, because I can't afford a second one myself & don't want to carry my home one to & from the lab every day!
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That was fast, it's arried already! Works flawlessley except the backslash key to the right of the left shift key (this is a UK layout) isn't mapped correctly, so I'll probably have to make another custom keyboard map when I have time & can remember how to do it.
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Alot of those adapters are designed for US keyboards and therefore don't support European ones. The Belkin adapters don't have that issue.
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How'd you obtain that scancode? It should be 00_56, that's what SharpKeys sez. In the rollover test (http://random.xem.us/rollover.html), it should register as "<226>".
(BTW: Any other apps for scancode sniffing? SharpKeys has this nasty habit of always re-establishing its program group if that has been moved elsewhere. I don't like it when applications try to be smarter than me.)
EDIT: 00 56 seems to be the code set 1 scancode, which is typically what you see in software on a PC. Code set 2 uses 61. In any case HID Usage ID 64 should be produced, and one would hope that this translates the same on a Mac.
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Works fine for me. (Though the Colemak layout converts it to an extra hyphen for me.)
My dongle is blue, but it functions as intended.