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Offline calagan

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OSX drivers for LBOTS and Flashget mechanical keyboards?
« on: Sun, 06 October 2013, 04:56:28 »
Just got back from China, where I treated myself with a couple of fancy tenkeyless mechanical keyboards:
- LBOTS The Mechanic (Backlit)
- FlashGet G600 (see review at http://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=47262.0)

Although they get automatically detected and work fine in Windows, I'm unable to get them working in Mac OSX with a completely bezerk mapping (even the ENTER and Backspace keys are not working, showing some characters instead).

Can any one please either point  to a link where I could download a driver for my Mac (they appear to behave very similarly, so I expect them to use the same driver) or upload it here (I'm a noob here, not sure if it' s allowed)?

Thank you very much in advance,

Calagan
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Re: OSX drivers for LBOTS and Flashget mechanical keyboards?
« Reply #1 on: Sun, 06 October 2013, 06:12:14 »
 :-[

While this is beyond my area of expertise I am sure someone here will chime in and help you out.
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Re: OSX drivers for LBOTS and Flashget mechanical keyboards?
« Reply #2 on: Sun, 06 October 2013, 16:06:52 »
Can you install the utility on a Windows box, configure the keyboard, then try on the Mac?
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Re: OSX drivers for LBOTS and Flashget mechanical keyboards?
« Reply #3 on: Sun, 06 October 2013, 16:15:24 »
It's both the same keyboard really so no surprise they do the same thing. I think you may be out of luck if it uses the multiple keyboard method for achieving greater than 6KRO Macs don't like it. I guess it's the case if they are working fine in Windows, it's not a hardware problem in the keyboard.
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Re: OSX drivers for LBOTS and Flashget mechanical keyboards?
« Reply #4 on: Fri, 11 October 2013, 15:58:32 »
Quote from: IvanIvanovich on Sun, 06 October 2013, 16:15:24
It's both the same keyboard really so no surprise they do the same thing.
Well, the LBOTS is backlit, not the Flashget

Quote from: IvanIvanovich on Sun, 06 October 2013, 16:15:24
I think you may be out of luck...
Quote from: rowdy on Sun, 06 October 2013, 16:06:52
Can you install the utility on a Windows box, configure the keyboard, then try on the Mac?
What keeps me hoping is that BangGood site says the FlashGet is compatible with Mac. I however didn't my keyboard from them and neither did I get the Utility CD nor the spare keycaps.
 
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Offline calagan

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<bump>Re: OSX drivers for LBOTS and Flashget mechanical keyboards?</bump>
« Reply #5 on: Wed, 11 June 2014, 00:50:16 »
I'm shamelessly bumping this thread, because I have yet to get my LBOTS The Mechanic and FlashGet G600 keyboards to work with OSX, which is a crying shame.

I do however see more and more sellers offering the FlashGet G600 and all of them advertising it as Mac OSX compatible.

Is there anyone around this forum who could confirm whether or not the mysterious CD shipped with the G600 (which I unfortunately didn't get) actually contains OSX drivers?

Thank you very much in advance.

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Offline calagan

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Re: OSX drivers for LBOTS and Flashget mechanical keyboards?
« Reply #6 on: Mon, 27 July 2015, 17:54:24 »
Here's my yearly bump; still no solution found.

Someone had the rather fancy suggestion of connecting them behind piggy-backed USB->PS/2 adapter and a PS/2->USB adapter, but no luck.

I also found that they work great on non-windows devices like a Rasperry Pi or a Samsung S5 with an OTG adapter.
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