Re: Wireless keyboards
- From: "James Silverton" <not.jim.silverton.at.comcast.not>
- Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 16:46:18 -0500
Hello, CptDondo!
You wrote on Thu, 18 Jan 2007 12:38:30 -0800:
C> J. Sommers wrote:
??>> I want to get a wireless keyboard for my Linux box, but I
??>> first would like to get some feedback from contributors to
??>> this forum. What is the status of wireless keyboard
??>> support under Linux? Is just about everything supported
??>> (like, say, with IDE hard drives) or are there some brands
??>> one should definitely steer clear of? What is the hardware
??>> like? I mean, I assume that there will be two pieces: The
??>> keyboard itself, plus something that one attaches to the
??>> PC, right?
??>>
??>> Thanks in advance.
C> A keybaord is a keyboard is a keyboard.
C> Most wireless keyboards are USB devices, with a small puck
C> for a receiver.
C> I've never come across one that didn't work automagically.
C> Now range and immunity to noise is a different issue....
I recently tried Knoppix on a PC equipped with a Logitech (MX3000, I think) wireless keyboard. Knoppix found it immediately and it works fine. It has a number of extra buttons (it's some sort of media keyboard and was bought because it was on sale, not for the buttons.) It uses batteries but they last a very long time. If I was starting from scratch I'd be pretty confident in Logitech but, all things being equal, I'd buy a simpler version. For desktop use, the wireless range has never seemed a problem. There are no really significant sources of noise in the room or close by.
James Silverton
Potomac, Maryland
E-mail, with obvious alterations: not.jim.silverton.at.comcast.not
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