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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!
>


  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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