the other option you have is finding out if your device (well, i guess the software on your device) can handle a card like this:
http://www.ratocsystems.com/english/products/subpages/cfu1u.html which should turn a variety of devices into the device you seek. making sure your keyboard is not powered in any way (lit up, say, or having an lcd innit). 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. 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? 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. of course, i'd never waste my CF slot on this kinda thing unless i had an SD wifi card, but obviously your needs are unique =) Yes, I'd probably be out of range of WIFI a lot of the time. Basically I just want this set up for asynchonous downloading of copious amounts of info from my brain to disk. This is why support for the ergo keyboard is important. Also why the laptop won't really work: as much as I like my laptop, I generally find it too cumbersome to lug both it and my keyboard around with me. Besides that, the laptop's video monitor is essentially useless in sunlight. 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. 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. _______________________________________________ Siglinux mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://machito.utacm.org/mailman/listinfo/siglinux
