On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 11:26:34AM -0500, Joe Corneli wrote: > http://www.ratocsystems.com/english/products/subpages/cfu1u.html > > Cool... but $139 for an adapter seems somewhat steep! More than > half as expensive as my keyboard ;). Maybe they can be found > used... I'll keep a look out.
it was just introduced a few months ago, i doubt there are many used ones out there. > But I dunno... I might just have to > bite the bullet and get this adapter. > > I wish there was a device that had onboard support tho! I'd gladly > pay $100 more for that if it meant no need for a $139 adapter, you > know what I mean? again i can only recommend the zaurus SL-6000. there was a review on slashdot yesterday. it has a functioning usb host plug which should talk to most devices (tho i suspect you could try your keyboard at fry's to see if it powers the thing well enough). > As for de-powering my keyboard, there is one LED on as I'm typing > now... I wonder how I might get it to turn off. Other than that, > nothing obvious, though previous posts in this list suggest that > actually the board is still a power hog. as i was unaware of that, i'd definitely try to test it before buying. > have you considered the myriad IR keyboard options which can be > found to work with almost any device? now there's a port that > i wouldn't mind tying up basically full time..i beam stuff to > other handhelds pretty rarely, and since the IR is typically > too weak to emulate remote controls at any distance...it's begging > to be abused for some purposes such as keyboarding =) > > That is a good idea... but unless there is a USB-to-IR converter > (where would the keyboard get its power from then? such a thing > would have to have its own battery I guess) then I couldn't keep > using my fancy/ergonomic keyboard. you should have mentioned that you wanted a *specific* keyboard rather than just "a keyboard". obviously the IR suggestion makes little sense in that context. (i've never heard of a (usb|ps2)->IR convertor, and while the one guy who writes zaurus drivers for keyboards would probably be willing to implement a driver for a new device, good luck getting one written (for you) for palmos, etc. > One of my ideas was to piggyback on the Linux on iPod project's > work. But as of now, I don't think anyone has gotten the iPod to > read keyboard input, and I'm not sure if the iPod's ports are > actually right for this. Latest iPod has a USB 2.0 port but I don't > know if that is something you can fruitfully plug a keyboard into. it seems unlikely that the ipods have USB host capability (what most mp3 players and PDA-type devices have is only USB client capability). _______________________________________________ Siglinux mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://machito.utacm.org/mailman/listinfo/siglinux
