On Wed, 2008-02-06 at 23:54 +1100, Bruce Bruen wrote: > On an entirely differnet theme. > > Some time ago, it used to be possible to "convince" certain BIOS versions > that > they had a keyboard attached by shorting the PS/2 pins 3 & 4 with a 100K > resistor. Trying it today with a "certain" (Compaq Presario desktop P3) box, > it doesn't seem to work. > > This is a typical Compaq ATX board (and by that I dont mean typical). Anyone > got any good ideas?
Many many years ago, Jamie Honan gave a talk at SLUG about a little microcontroller kit he hacked up to emulate a PS/2 keyboard, to solve precisely this problem. http://www.progsoc.uts.edu.au/~jhonan/havr-go/havr-go.html -- Pete -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
