11.10 no longer supports PS/2 keyboards?

[Doug]

On 10/15/2011 12:17 PM, Colin Law wrote:
> On 15 October 2011 17:13, Bill Stanley<bstanle at wowway.com>  wrote:
>>>> I know they want to drop the old style of desktop, but dropping support
>>>> for
>>>> PS/2 keyboards is just whack!
>> <snip>
>>
>> Surely your computer has USB ports?  Just buy an USB mouse.
> How will a USB mouse help his PS/2 keyboard problem?
>
> By the way I can also confirm that PS/2 keyboard works ok for me on 11.10
>
> Colin
>
>
> If you want to
>> keep your PS/2 mouse, perhaps there might be a hardware way around the
>> problem.  When I bought a replacement mouse for an older computer, it came
>> with an adapter where you could can a PS/2 style mouse to an USB port.  I
>> checked on Google and these adapters are quite inexpensive.
In my previous reply, I said a keyboard  adapter could come from
"Cables-R-Us"--I guess I was day-dreaming.  I was thinking of  Cyberguys.
The adapter is part number 1310835, and sells for $8.19.  And yes, it works
fine with Linux, as I'm now demonstrating.  I don't know if the cheaper
purple plastic adapters work.

--doug



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