How to adapt ps2 keyboard to usb mac

how to adapt ps2 keyboard to usb mac?

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It doesn't work for some Keyboards & Mice, depends on how they were made, but...
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USB PS2 Keyboard converter adapter worked fine in 10.5, issues in 10.6

I'm a mac user with a fetish for old IBM Model M clicky keyboards. After some sniffing around and buying a few cheap adapters that didn't work, I found this product on www.clickykeyboards.com :
http://www.clickykeyboards.com/index.cfm/fa/items.main/parentcat/11298/subcatid/ 0/id/124184
In short, it doesn't seem to work right with key modifiers in 10.6 whereas it did in 10.5
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The longer story with details...
In leopard, it worked like a charm. Most important to me of course was flexibility of layout in the modifier keys. Starting from the bottom left, standard mac layout is:
control ... option(alt) ... command(apple)
My keyboard (late 80's classic Model M) has:
ctrl ... [grey plastic] ... alt
...and the normal functionality you get when you plug in a standard 104-key windows keyboard to a mac by USB is:
ctrl = control
alt = option
windows = command
So I map as follows using the modifier keys remap function in the keyboard pane of sysprefs:
ctrl = control
alt = command (so it's in the same place that it would be on a mac keyboard
caps lock = option
And it worked beauty. The LED's for num/caps/scroll didn't do anything, which was fine, who needs them. And when I booted to WinXP via BootCamp, it also worked properly. F12 worked for both eject and dashboard, awesome.
Just got the new snow-kitty and the remap stopped working! All the keys on the board work as designed, but no matter how I map the modifier keys in SysPrefs, alt is locked to option, ctrl to ctrl, caps lock to caps lock, the LED's work again (weird), and I have no apple key! It's like the remap values I choose are getting overridden in hardware or something.
Anyone have any ideas? Could be the USB/PS2 converter needs a 10.6 driver, but I can't figure out who the manufacturer is...
Before anyone suggests it, using a newer keyboard is not under any circumstances a viable option

Already asked them earlier today, awaiting reply. They've been very helpful in the past so fingers crossed.
I see this getting fixed by either a driver update from the manufacturer, which I'm not super-confident about since the converter has kind of a brand-X chinese vibe and no documentation whatsoever, or a different (perhaps newer) converter. Will post any follow-up I get from clickykeyboards.com here.
*brews coffee*

Is there a driver to let a ps2 keyboard plugged in with a usb connector work on my macbook pro 13inch

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I know there are more threads about this subject but none was really an answer.
I got a keyboard (brand medion) with a ps2 connector. i wanted it to connect to my macbook so i bought an ps2 to usb connecter.
wile connected with my macbook the keyboard leds flash one time like they do when you put it in a ps2. but after this just doesn' t work
I think i might miss a driver or its just turned of somwhere in the system. an previous answer was said something about a safe reboot and a lot of codes but thats to hard for me.
so any good solutions????

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Thanks for the welcome BlayZay!
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[SOLVED] Can't get my PS2 keyboard working

Hi
I just bought the reknowned IBM model M keyboard with PS2 connector, and when I boot into Arch, I can't get it to work.
I found this post, which links to a supposed solution, but the link is unfortunately dead: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=36299
Some facts:
1. The keyboard does work when I'm at the bootloader.
2. I can boot into a Puppy Linux derivative from USB and use the keyboard without any problems, which leads me to believe the problem is in Arch.
3. I am using a USB mouse.
4. Plugging and unplugging the keyboard does not show up in dmesg
Any thoughts on how to fix this are appreciated
Thanks
Martin
Last edited by ibid (2011-09-30 02:12:28)

karol wrote:PS/2 is not hotpluggable IIRC, so dmesg won't show anything.
I didn't think so either, but the previous post I linked suggested it might be, so I thought I post the results of my test.
Here's what I see in /var/log/messages.log
Oct 10 19:51:28 boots kernel: [ 1.322784] input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard as /devices/platform/i8042/serio0/input/input0
Sep 28 17:54:05 boots kernel: [ 36.946024] input: CHICONY USB Keyboard as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:04.1/usb1/1-1/1-1.2/1-1.2:1.0/input/input8
Sep 28 17:54:05 boots kernel: [ 36.946527] generic-usb 0003:04F2:0112.0002: input,hidraw1: USB HID v1.10 Keyboard [CHICONY USB Keyboard] on usb-0000:00:04.1-1.2/input0
The first line looks like it is from the PS2 keyboard, at least that's how I interperet AT Translated Set 2. Strange that the timestamp is completely wrong. The other lines are from when I plugged my USB keyboard in.
Maybe there is a hook in mkinitcpio I can add, or something with udev?

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