Will a keyboard and mouse work with a PCI USB board?
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From: E Z Peaces on 6 Feb 2010 12:30 DJW wrote: > On Feb 5, 11:14 pm, J.J. O'Shea <try.not...(a)but.see.sig> wrote: >> On Fri, 5 Feb 2010 23:47:20 -0500, DJW wrote >> (in article >> <d8833823-9584-405c-b349-1adad6d09...(a)36g2000yqu.googlegroups.com>): >> >>> Will a keyboard and mouse work with a PCI USB board? >>> Been told maybe not I have a blue and white G3 tower running 10.3 and >>> 10.4. >> I have a USB mouse and keyboard running on a PCI USB daughtercard in a beige >> G3. 10.2. >> >> -- >> email to oshea dot j dot j at gmail dot com. > > Great but do I have to buy a Mac specific board. And if I want to run > OS 9.2 will I need an init (control panel or extension) to get things > to work? I ran a USB PCI card on a 68040 Mac with OS 8 and OS 9. I needed a bundle of Apple extensions called USB Adapter Card Support. There was some USB equipment I couldn't use because it had to be recognized when the system loaded, and the PCI card wasn't ready. I can't remember if that ruled out a mouse or keyboard. That limitation did not necessarily apply to later Macs.
From: Erik Richard Sørensen on 6 Feb 2010 13:04 DJW wrote: > On Feb 5, 11:14 pm, J.J. O'Shea <try.not...(a)but.see.sig> wrote: >> On Fri, 5 Feb 2010 23:47:20 -0500, DJW wrote >>> Will a keyboard and mouse work with a PCI USB board? >>> Been told maybe not I have a blue and white G3 tower running 10.3 and >>> 10.4. >> I have a USB mouse and keyboard running on a PCI USB daughtercard in a beige >> G3. 10.2. > > Great but do I have to buy a Mac specific board. And if I want to run > OS 9.2 will I need an init (control panel or extension) to get things > to work? Some non-Apple keyboards and mice will not work with an USB PCI card in the B&W G3, because the PCI cards load rathr late in the system parts in both OS 9.x and OS X on those machines. Some of the Logitech keyboards and mice do work with OS 9.x, but they require the OS 9.x version of the Logitech ControlCenter software. Also some of the Microsoft keyboards and mice do work with OS 9.x - also requires their own software - IntelliType and IntelliPoint for OS 9.x. Both the Logitech and MS software though are very unstable and buggy on OS 9.x. But since your machine is a B&W G3 - why don't you just try to find a used Apple Extended ISO II ADB keyboard and maybe a MacAlly 2-button ADB mouse? - All the B&W G3s have the ADB connector for mice/keyboards. - This keyboard is still one of the best ever made keyboards in the world... And it also does work just fine in both OS X 10.3.x and 10.4.x on the B&W G3s. Cheers, Erik Richard -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Erik Richard Sørensen, Member of ADC, <mac-manNOSP(a)Mstofanet.dk> NisusWriter - The Future In Multilingual Text Processing - www.nisus.com OpenOffice.org - The Modern Productivity Solution - www.openoffice.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
From: nospam on 6 Feb 2010 13:12 In article <4b6daf1d$0$4811$ba624c82(a)nntp02.dk.telia.net>, Erik Richard S�rensen <NOSPAM(a)NOSPAM.dk> wrote: > Some non-Apple keyboards and mice will not work with an USB PCI card in > the B&W G3, because the PCI cards load rathr late in the system parts in > both OS 9.x and OS X on those machines. wrong. if it's a usb standard keyboard or mouse, it will work.
From: nospam on 6 Feb 2010 13:12 In article <646a334e-fa9d-4027-b070-24b75d36480e(a)b18g2000vbl.googlegroups.com>, DJW <ddwr(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > Great but do I have to buy a Mac specific board. any ohci compliant usb card should work > And if I want to run > OS 9.2 will I need an init (control panel or extension) to get things > to work? yes and it's included with os9. you will also get usb 1.1 support only.
From: DJW on 6 Feb 2010 22:30
On Feb 6, 12:12 pm, nospam <nos...(a)nospam.invalid> wrote: > In article <4b6daf1d$0$4811$ba624...(a)nntp02.dk.telia.net>, Erik Richard > > Sørensen <NOS...(a)NOSPAM.dk> wrote: > > Some non-Apple keyboards and mice will not work with an USB PCI card in > > the B&W G3, because the PCI cards load rathr late in the system parts in > > both OS 9.x and OS X on those machines. > > wrong. if it's a usb standard keyboard or mouse, it will work. I checked ebay and found cares would there be any disadvantage to getting a card that is both USB and firewire or would it possible work better as a stand alone USB PCI card and if I want to add firewire ( I have two ports now) I get a PCI firewire card seperatly? |