Wireless keyboard Issue

[tarpat1]

This may seem like a crazy problem but I am dealing with it and it is driving me, well crazy. I have a wireless keyboard and it is hooked up to a KVM switch that is connecting to an XP box and a Slackware 9.1 box. In Windows the keyboard works fine, however in Slackware whenever I use the keyboard a 'w' appears without being typed. For example if I open a terminal window and dont type anything for a few seconds a 'w' will appear and it gets worse as I try to type things in. Anyone have any ideas? I put this question here due to the fact that it does not happen on the XP box. Thanks.

[John Prophet]

Well, knowing the brand of the keyboard would help troubleshoot it, lol.

I do remember seeing an article or a patch or something for a keyboard.....the keyboard had the hotkeys or "multimedia" keys...and the deal was that it actually did something like send a "ping" to the internet every few minutes or 15 seconds or whatever..to check for internet connectivity.

Could it possibly be something like that? The only way to find out would be to go to the manufacturer website and check out the faqs and latest drivers etc.

The keyboard thing I saw had a patch to disable the function cuz peeps complained due to security issues.

JP

[tarpat1]

Heh, I guess that is a detail that might be needed. Its a Logitech Wireless Keyboard, the ones that they gave away a year ago or so.

[John Prophet]

has it got a model # on the bottom of it?

[John Prophet]

http://www.linuxforum.com/forums/ind...showtopic=1476

possibly related, lol. (I am NOT a linux peep, lol)


Quote from link

"I was having the same problem. I did some research, and it appears that it is being caused by the system thinking you have a USB keyboard. What you should do is go to the rc.sysinit file in /etc/rc.d, and scroll down until you come to lines:

CODE

needusbstorage=
if [ $usb = "1" ]; then
needusbstorage=`LC_ALL=C grep -e "^I.*Cls=08" /proc/bus/usb/devices 2>/dev/null`
LC_ALL=C grep 'hid' /proc/bus/usb/drivers || action $"Initializing USB HID interface: " modprobe hid 2> /dev/null
action $"Initializing USB keyboard: " modprobe keybdev 2> /dev/null
action $"Initializing USB mouse: " modprobe mousedev 2> /dev/null
fi



This is the problematic code (in RedHat 9/Shrike, at least.) Comment out all of it, or if you like to live life dangerously, delete it. This should solve your problem.
Also, make sure the proper keyboard layout is set in the /etc/X11/XF86Config file. For some reason, mine was set to pc105 when it is actually a pc104. Go figure.

Actually.... I have no idea what I'm doing, really. I THINK that this is the problem, commenting it out works for me. It could just be the usb keyboard line that's problematic, or both the keyboard and mouse line, or perhaps the whole entire thing. Dunno. "