From: "Bruce Ellis" <bruce.ellis@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] usb: keyboards vs. hubs
Date: Fri, 4 May 2007 16:42:30 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <775b8d190705032342k1f7d9a81sc9f089fe934d52d3@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070503185314.B22416@orthanc.ca>
yes you are in a USB vortex. no human can implement the
standard. no standards dudes can implement anything.
brucee
On 5/4/07, Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ca> wrote:
> What is it with keyboards plugged in to USB hubs that the kernel doesn't
> like? I thought it was just a broken hub when I first noticed this, but
> now I've seen it on two completely distinct systems.
>
> If the keyboard has anything between it and the CPU (e.g. a hub or KVM)
> it doesn't work. Yet on the exact same path, a USB mouse works just
> fine. In at least 50% of the cases, the same keyboard directly attached
> works fine :-P Am I just in a vortex field?
>
>
> --lyndon
>
> Specifications are for the weak and timid!
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-04 6:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-04 1:58 Lyndon Nerenberg
2007-05-04 6:42 ` Bruce Ellis [this message]
2007-05-04 13:08 ` Wes Kussmaul
2007-05-04 14:38 ` Steve Simon
2007-05-04 15:37 ` Wes Kussmaul
2007-05-04 8:24 ` Charles Forsyth
2007-05-04 15:38 ` ron minnich
2007-05-04 8:45 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
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