Re: PDA+flexible keyboard
From: Bill Marcum (bmarcum_at_iglou.com.urgent)
Date: 04/30/05
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Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2005 04:41:27 -0400
On 29 Apr 2005 07:31:26 -0700, Dietrich Semsar
<Dietrich.Semsar@gmx.de> wrote:
> Hi folks out there,
>
> I want to buy a PDA and use it together with a flexible USB keyboard.
> I aim to use linux with the PDA. I've already build own kernels and
> done other special linux stuff.
>
> Some clerks told me that it is uncertain if the PDA undestands that
> there is a keyboard connected with USB.
>
> Does anybody have experience with PDA and external USB keboard support
> running linux?
> I don't want to use the foldable mini keyboards you can get for the
> PDA's cause they are no realy keyboards to me. And a flexible
> keyyboard is light and could be rolled so this combination would be
> perfect for external text input with as light an equpiment as
> possible.
>
> What kind of PDA is recommended for that? What linux is known to be
> the right one for me? What problems could there be concerning
> different flexible keyboards?
>
Most PDAs work as USB slave devices. A USB keyboard is also a slave.
With USB you can't connect two slaves without a master.
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