If I were you I'd OpenBSD a shot - it has pretty good sparc support, and if the installer detects the keyboard, you've got some documentation (in the form of a driver) that you can look at. A few years back I had a similar machine (tadpole sparc laptop, don't remember which variety tho) which linux and NetBSD failed to understand keypresses from, but OpenBSD did just fine.
Good luck... Martin wrote: > On Mon, 2009-12-21 at 21:29 +0000, Immolo wrote: > >> Just recived contact and they are unwilling to give any documentation >> other then that what is at >> >> ftp://ftp.tadpole.com/support/SPARCLE/ >> > > It will be significantly more difficult to write drivers for an > undocumented device. Your first step should be to gather as much > information as possible on it. sunhelp.org might be a good place to > start as the rescue list has a lot of folks who are very knowledgeable > about Sun kit. Have you identified via OpenBoot, proc, etc. what bus the > keyboard is attached to and what the keyboard controllers are? Have > you / can you open up the machine and find out what chips / parts are > used? > > Cheers, > - Martin > -- Brian Szymanski email: [email protected] skype: xbrianskix cell: +1 202 747 4019 jabber: [email protected] aim: xbrianskix Ex cibus merda. Ex merda humus. Ex humus cibus.
