Does Leopold not love iMacs?

[Netbootz]

After months of reading I srpung for the Leopold FC 660C and it arrived a few days ago.  When I got to work and plugged it into my iMac (running Windows 8*) I found that no input came from it - except the control and alt keys.  Sadness!

I figured I was covered running Windows, but maybe the mac hardware and FC660C are not compatible?  I'm new to high end mechanical keyboards so I thought I'd ask the experienced guys - you.

*Before you ask, I use OS for everything but gaming and programming (whcih I do 70% of the time, although I really really like Win8 and might adopt it for more stuff)

[Hellmark]

Are you running Win8 through bootcamp, or something like Parallels?

If you're using it through bootcamp, then there should be zero issues. If you're doing it with VMware, Parallels, etc, then you'll have to pass the USB device to the Guest OS. This can be tricky at times.

If you are infact dual booting using Boot camp, then it sounds like a bad keyboard.

[Hypersphere]

I'm using a Leopold FC660C, sharing it through both Synergy software and a KM switch hardware with 3 computers: a Mac running OS X, a Mac running Windows 7 via Bootcamp, and a PC running Linux. No problems whether the keyboard is on Windows via Synergy or directly connected using the KM switch. However, I have not tried Windows 8.

I presume you have tried connecting and reconnecting, allowing drivers to install, etc. On my Mac, the FC660C is recognized as "mini keyboard", whereas my IBM SSK is recognized as "input device". It is the same on my Win 7 machine.



 

[Netbootz]

Thanks for your answers - both informative. 

It looks like it is the computer. PHEW! I was afraid it was the new FC660c.

I was running it through bootcamp, and only the letter and number keys won't work.  I switched back to the mac keyboard and it also did not work in the exact same way.  The FC660c worked on the other iMac but the layout was not recognized - I can live with that.

FC660c owners can rest easy.

Troubleshooting:  I'll continue to hard restart with various keyboards and report the real solve in case anyone runs into the same problem.

Thanks again.

[dante]

Apple still makes computers?

[daerid]

Apple still makes computers?

*drum roll*