[ltp] External Keyboards on the TP600??

Martin West linux-thinkpad@www.bm-soft.com
Mon, 26 Nov 2001 23:58:43 -0000


Thats probably because the bits come from IBM, I suspect.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Rob Mayoff" <mayoff@dqd.com>
To: <linux-thinkpad@www.bm-soft.com>
Sent: Monday, November 26, 2001 10:13 PM
Subject: Re: [ltp] External Keyboards on the TP600??


> +---------- On Nov 26, Ron Joffe said:
> > Due to some unknown reasoning (at least not to me), IBM decided that you
need
> > a special splitter in order to be able to plug in a keyboard to the ps/2
> > slot. This splitter provides two ps/2 slots, one for keyboard, one for
mouse.
> > I got mine from Belkin for about $20.
>
> Not just IBM. At least some Dell notebooks require the same splitter if
> you want to use an external PS/2 keyboard and mouse.
>
>
>
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