[playme123]

Right the tower that I have got will shortly be linked up to lcd tv and am thinking of getting this keyboard
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...1472&rd=1&rd=1
Will ubuntu recognise it, could there be any probs, think the adaptor goes into a usb port.

[Old Bob]

playme123,

Does your present keyboard have a PS2 plug ?? [round, green plug]

Plug the new keyboard in and then boot up Ubuntu. If Ubuntu does NOT find the keyboard as "new hardware" you may have to reinstall Ubuntu.

[briealeida]

You shouldn't have too much of an issue. I got a wireless keyboard after I built my machine, plugged in the receiver and have been going at it ever since.

From what I've read, no one had had significant problems.

The big thing is to check for the PS/2 port, though.

[briealeida]

Oops. Didn't see the post.

[playme123]

Originally Posted by Old Bob

playme123,

Does your present keyboard have a PS2 plug ?? [round, green plug]

Plug the new keyboard in and then boot up Ubuntu. If Ubuntu does NOT find the keyboard as "new hardware" you may have to reinstall Ubuntu.

my current keyboard works in the ubuntu tower and the xp tower. Its the ps2 pluggy thingy

[playme123]

Originally Posted by briealeida

You shouldn't have too much of an issue. I got a wireless keyboard after I built my machine, plugged in the receiver and have been going at it ever since.

From what I've read, no one had had significant problems.

The big thing is to check for the PS/2 port, though.

cheers thanks for that, made me laugh though got a message back from the bloke about the kyeboards working in linux he said that one wouldnt but another one would bloody 30quid dearer im not that much of a muppett

[briealeida]

I didn't read well on this one, either. :-(. lol.

[playme123]

have come across this
http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/produ...uct_uid=104608
and there are a few ubunto and other linux distro users that have left reave reviews about it so will be going for this one now

[briealeida]

Looks cool! I hate touchpads, though. :-(.

[playme123]

some of the ones that had little joystick on them tended to break, im fine with touchpad as I use a laptop and it will probably be mainly me using it, it wont be a problem. Just pleased I have come across one that will definately work.
They are also doing this pc with ubuntu preloaded on it its a bargain
http://www.ebuyer.com/UK/product/128595/rb/0
I dont really need another pc at the moment otherwise would snap one up

[briealeida]

Wow! I wonder if they'll ship that to the States reasonably?

How do you know it's Ubuntu? I just see Linux.

[playme123]

I read the reviews on it and someone posted this pc in the ubuntu forums, its a shame that most of them that bought it wiped the ubuntu and put xp on it, dont know if they ship to states ill have a look and let you know

[playme123]

right im still trying to get my tower wireless and have the following output which gives details of the card im trying to use

lshw -C network
WARNING: you should run this program as super-user.
*-network:0 DISABLED
description: Wireless interface
product: BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller
vendor: Broadcom Corporation
physical id: 1
bus info: pci@02:01.0
logical name: eth1
version: 02
serial: 00:0c:6e:f9:9f:aa
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=bcm43xx driverversion=2.6.20-16-generic latency=64 multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11b/g
resources: iomemory:fddfc000-fddfdfff irq:19
*-network:1
description: Ethernet interface
product: RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+
vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
physical id: 5
bus info: pci@02:05.0
logical name: eth0
version: 10
serial: 00:14:85:79:92:cf
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list ethernet physical
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=8139too driverversion=0.9.28 latency=64 maxlatency=64 mingnt=32 multicast=yes
resources: ioport:dc00-dcff iomemory:fddff000-fddff0ff irq:21
*-network
description: Ethernet interface
physical id: 1
logical name: usb0
serial: 02:90:d0:e3:2c:37
capabilities: ethernet physical
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=usbnet driverversion=22-Aug-2005 firmware=CDC Ethernet Device ip=192.168.1.65 multicast=yes
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