RE: mceusb2 support for Microsoft Remote Keyboard?

I'd suggest that with that many un-answered questions, "tinkering/testing"
will be necessary.  Personally, I don't have one, though others might.

Buzz. 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: lirc-list-admin-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:lirc-list-admin-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On 
> Behalf Of 
> Chris Petersen
> Sent: Wednesday, 8 February 2006 4:45 AM
> To: lirc-list-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: mceusb2 support for Microsoft Remote Keyboard?
> 
> There have been some users on the mythtv-users mailing list 
> asking about this keyboard, and since I recently acquired one 
> as part of a system bundle, I thought I'd take it upon myself 
> to get a definite answer about linux/lirc support for the device.
> 
> It's my understanding from searching the mailing list 
> archives that the
> mceusb2 driver works fine for the remote/receiver bundle that 
> MS sells, and that it's possible that the keyboard can be 
> made to work.  However, I'm hoping someone can tell me if the 
> mouse embedded in the keyboard can be made to work with 
> lircmd, and can confirm that the keyboard itself can be made 
> to work outside of merely controlling lirc-aware programs 
> (meaning, can lirc make it look like a real keyboard so I can 
> use it in console mode, etc?)
> 
> My receiver also came with two IR blaster modules to plug 
> into it, so I'm also wondering if these will work, too.
> 
> If I can't get a fully functioning keyboard/mouse out of the 
> setup, I'd rather sell the hardware to offset the cost of my 
> system, so I'd rather not unpack them to do much 
> testing/tinkering only to find out that they don't work.
> 
> -Chris
> 
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