Making a USB only keyboard work with a PS/2 port

[wetcat007]

A lot of keyboards only work with USB ports and the little adapters for PS/2 ports don't work with them.

Is there any special type of adapter that exists to convert a USB only keyboard to work on a PS/2 port.

 

[engiNURD]

Yah, an active adapter. I found one, once, but it cost more than the keyboard, lol.

 

[wetcat007]

Originally posted by: engiNURD
Yah, an active adapter. I found one, once, but it cost more than the keyboard, lol.

Do you remember where? Unless it was insanely expensive cost isn't a big issue.

 

[Synomenon]

This one works:
http://www.linkskey.com/detail...&ProductName=LKV-PUC01

My Dell RT7D50 doesn't work with any of those cheap adapters either that come with most keyboards. The Linkskey unit I linked to is the only thing that worked. When you use these active adapters you lose use of any custom / shortcut keys though. Custom / shortcut keys as in the the keys around the top of almost all Logitech keyboards.

Two other companies that make a similar adapter as the Linkskey are Black Box and Rose. They're really expensive though. The Linkskey was pretty expensive as well. Also, all these active adapters have a connection for both keyboard and mouse, but you only connect what you need to use.

 

[vailr]

If the only need is to enable bios setup access, there may be a bios setting for this.
Change: "USB Keyboard" and "USB Mouse" from "OS" to "Bios".
Depends on the specific motherboard.

 

[wetcat007]

Originally posted by: vailr
If the only need is to enable bios setup access, there may be a bios setting for this.
Change: "USB Keyboard" and "USB Mouse" from "OS" to "Bios".
Depends on the specific motherboard.

Actually it's for a KVM switch that uses PS/2 and I wish to keep it PS/2 for all the connections so old computers with no USB support at all will still work. But I still wish to use a nice keyboard and every nice keyboard I find is USB only.

 

[wetcat007]

Originally posted by: IsLNdbOi
This one works:
http://www.linkskey.com/detail...&ProductName=LKV-PUC01

My Dell RT7D50 doesn't work with any of those cheap adapters either that come with most keyboards. The Linkskey unit I linked to is the only thing that worked. When you use these active adapters you lose use of any custom / shortcut keys though. Custom / shortcut keys as in the the keys around the top of almost all Logitech keyboards.

Two other companies that make a similar adapter as the Linkskey are Black Box and Rose. They're really expensive though. The Linkskey was pretty expensive as well. Also, all these active adapters have a connection for both keyboard and mouse, but you only connect what you need to use.

Thank! I'll look into those.