Stuart, With that in mind, I'd recommend that, if you still can, return your [new] keyboard and then get a Belkin 6-Port Hi-Speed USB 2.0 and Firewire HUB, same footprint as the Mini, and two of the ports are front access. I have one, and MacMall has them for under $30 (cables incl.).
Regards, Russ Preston On Jan 15, 2006, at 3:10 PM, Jerry Yeager wrote: > Lots of USB keyboards do not have the power pins (which are needed > to charge your iPod) because USB version 1.0 does not call for them > to do this. USB 2.0 (found on your Mac Mini does have the power pins). > > Jerry > > On Jan 15, 2006, at 2:56 PM, Stuart Ungar wrote: >> >> I have a shuffle and it doesn't seem to charge unless >> I connect it to the back of my mini (a pain in the you >> know what). I just bought a new apple keyboard >> (standard one) thinking it was because my older >> keyboard was USB 1 and not two, but it doesn't seem to >> charge on the new keyboard either. What is the >> problem? >> >> -stuart > > I don' have an ac charger for it. i just charge it > via USB. it charges fine when i plug it in in the > back of the macmini, but not when i plug it into the keyboard. > > -stuart | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be January 24 at Pitt Academy, 6010 Preston Highway. | The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>
