Ho hum, I dunno about chipset support for that. :) This one seems to cover the PS2 mouse & keyboard protocol pretty well: http://www.computer-engineering.org/ps2protocol/ The "Communication" sections therein actually look pretty good and might get you further along, if you haven't already found that too.
Hardware could solve it, but since you're a primarily a software guy (albeit closer to hardware than me!), couldn't you just virtualize the windows environment, and load it up on boot? Darn windurrs. Ben PS - fwiw, I came across a cool tiny linux I have not seen before, although it uses parallel ports: http://atomic.eyedropvideo.com/remote1.shtml "Atomic Linux, free automation" (mini-distro, for floppy disk on old hardware) On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 8:02 PM, Bob Miller <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 7:49 PM, Bill Barry <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 7:46 PM, Bob Miller <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 6:04 PM, Ben Barrett <[email protected]> > wrote: > >>> Just my hunch, I think using USB would be easier; AFAIK you can switch > modes > >>> (host/slave) if the hardware will support it, as has been done with > n770 > >>> (&8xx too?). > >> > >> Hmmm. Does the Intel UHCI/EHCI support slave mode? Switched > >> per-port? > >> > >>> and, do you really need linux? > >>> http://www.obdev.at/products/vusb/prjhid.html > >>> :) > >> > >> My first thought was an Arduino. The Arduino docs indicate that the HW > >> is capable of emulating PS/2, and it has a serial-over-USB interface as > well. > >> But I'd be writing more software than this project warrants. > >> > >> -- > >> Bob Miller K<bob> > >> [email protected] > > > > > > Do you need the keyboard at boot? Otherwise you could just use VNC. > > Yeah, I know about VNC, qemu, rdesktop, VMware, synergy, x2vnc, and > some other things. I need a way to enter input before the network is up. > After the network is up, I'll be using synergy. > > I can install as much software as I want on the Linux side, but it needs > to look like a hardware keyboard to the Windows box. Sorry I didn't make > that clear in my first post. > > -- > Bob Miller K<bob> > [email protected] > _______________________________________________ > EUGLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug >
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