Most USB keyboards include a USB->PS/2 adapter. I use an all-USB setup
including a USB KVM.
I have about five or six of those little adapters if you're heading to the
Tampa meeting tomorrow night.
On 10/10/05, Paul M Foster <paulf@quillandmouse.com> wrote:
>
> My wife uses a Microsoft Natural keyboard which just crapped out.
> Unfortunately, Microsoft has been screwing around with the edit key
> layout on their new keyboards, and there's only one they sell with the
> right layout. Also unfortunately, it is a USB keyboard. She uses a
> single keyboard, mouse and monitor to drive both a Windows and a Linux
> box through a standard KVM switch currently. If she has to switch to
> this new USB keyboard, I'm not sure how it's going to work with the KVM.
> So here's the question-- given this arrangement, is there an animal
> which will do this:
>
> _____
> USB keyboard ----->| |--------------->Windows computer
> PS/2 mouse ------->| KVM |
> DB15 video ------->| |--------------->Linux computer
> -----
> or
> _____
> USB keyboard ----->| |--------------->Windows computer
> USB mouse -------->| KVM |
> DB15 video ------->| |--------------->Linux computer
> -----
>
> Paul
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