[Gllug] USB keyboard

[Russell Howe]

On Sun, Oct 01, 2006 at 05:25:25PM +0100, Alain Williams wrote:
> Do I need to buy a mobo w/out a PS2 keyboard slot but a USB keyboard slot

You don't *need* to, no.

> do I take a (recent) mobo and just not plug in a PS2 keyboard but plug in a
> USB one and it will find and use the USB keyboard ?

Almost certainly.

Any motherboard from the past 5 years or so which has a USB slot will
do. If you want to be able to use PS/2 keyboards as well (or devices
which pretend to be PS/2 keyboards, such as some barcode scanners, card
readers etc), then you'll either want to ensure the board has one, or
get a PS/2 keyboard -> USB adapter.

Most BIOSes from the last few years work with a USB keyboard just fine.

Basically, plug a USB keyboard into any spare USB port and everything
should Just Work(tm)

Unless you go and try Windows 95 or something, but that would be silly
now, wouldn't it?

-- 
Russell Howe       | Why be just another cog in the machine,
rhowe at siksai.co.uk | when you can be the spanner in the works?
-- 
Gllug mailing list  -  Gllug at gllug.org.uk
http://lists.gllug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/gllug