Re: USB-to-PS/2 adaptor: mouse works, keyboard doesn't

2009-01-07 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Monday 2009 January 05 06:28:31 Emanoil Kotsev wrote: >> USB is powered when you attach the device. This means the usb device gets >> power over the bus after attaching it. I've read about power on/off with >> specific usb disks and devices. You may google about

Re: USB-to-PS/2 adaptor: mouse works, keyboard doesn't

2009-01-05 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 2009 January 05 06:28:31 Emanoil Kotsev wrote: > USB is powered when you attach the device. This means the usb device gets > power over the bus after attaching it. I've read about power on/off with > specific usb disks and devices. You may google about it. That's not the whole story thou

Re: USB-to-PS/2 adaptor: mouse works, keyboard doesn't

2009-01-05 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Daniel Cliff wrote: > On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 4:41 PM, Andrei Popescu > wrote: >> On Fri,02.Jan.09, 15:30:42, Daniel Cliff wrote: >> >>> I hope I'm not bound to boot first WinXP and then restart and boot >>> Debian in order to use the keyboard! >> >> What happens if you boot Debian with the adapto

Re: USB-to-PS/2 adaptor: mouse works, keyboard doesn't

2009-01-02 Thread Daniel Cliff
On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 4:41 PM, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Fri,02.Jan.09, 15:30:42, Daniel Cliff wrote: > >> I hope I'm not bound to boot first WinXP and then restart and boot >> Debian in order to use the keyboard! > > What happens if you boot Debian with the adaptor and the peripherals > connect

Re: USB-to-PS/2 adaptor: mouse works, keyboard doesn't

2009-01-02 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Fri,02.Jan.09, 15:30:42, Daniel Cliff wrote: > I hope I'm not bound to boot first WinXP and then restart and boot > Debian in order to use the keyboard! What happens if you boot Debian with the adaptor and the peripherals connected? Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you do

Re: USB-to-PS/2 adaptor: mouse works, keyboard doesn't

2009-01-02 Thread Daniel Cliff
On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 2:11 PM, Daniel Cliff wrote: > Hello everyone, > I'm a new Debian user. I recently installed Debian on my laptop > computer, and almost everything worked out of the box. > However, there are a few things that don't work now, but did in my old > system. So I would like to as

Re: USB-to-PS/2 adaptor: mouse works, keyboard doesn't

2008-12-30 Thread Daniel Cliff
On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 2:11 PM, Daniel Cliff wrote: > Hello everyone, > I'm a new Debian user. I recently installed Debian on my laptop > computer, and almost everything worked out of the box. > However, there are a few things that don't work now, but did in my old > system. So I would like to as

Re: USB-to-PS/2 adaptor: mouse works, keyboard doesn't

2008-12-29 Thread Daniel Cliff
(I see this message never reached the list...) On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 2:18 PM, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Daniel Cliff wrote: >> I use a PS/2 keyboard and a USB mouse that I connect to the laptop >> thru a (generic) USB to PS/2 adaptor. The mouse works, but the >> keyboard doesn't. I have no ide

Re: USB-to-PS/2 adaptor: mouse works, keyboard doesn't

2008-12-29 Thread Daniel Cliff
On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 2:31 PM, Daniel Cliff wrote: > On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 2:18 PM, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > >> Daniel Cliff wrote: > >>> I use a PS/2 keyboard and a USB mouse that I connect to the laptop >>> thru a (generic) USB to PS/2 adaptor. The mouse works, but the >>> keyboard doesn't

Re: USB-to-PS/2 adaptor: mouse works, keyboard doesn't

2008-12-28 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Daniel Cliff wrote: Hello everyone, I'm a new Debian user. I recently installed Debian on my laptop computer, and almost everything worked out of the box. However, there are a few things that don't work now, but did in my old system. So I would like to ask for your advice. I use a PS/2 keyboard

USB-to-PS/2 adaptor: mouse works, keyboard doesn't

2008-12-28 Thread Daniel Cliff
Hello everyone, I'm a new Debian user. I recently installed Debian on my laptop computer, and almost everything worked out of the box. However, there are a few things that don't work now, but did in my old system. So I would like to ask for your advice. I use a PS/2 keyboard and a USB mouse that I