PhoneSkype USB Phone SK-04. It gets detected, is registered in /sys/bus/usb as a Key Pad. Everything else USB works, nothing from showkey. # less /sys/bus/usb/devices/usb3/3-2/3-2:1.3/interface Keypad /dev/usb/hiddev0 and /dev/input/keyboard say they are not valid devices and they are the ones created by the 9.3 install, not by udev. From dmesg ---------- usbcore: registered new driver hiddev drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: timeout initializing reports input: USB HID v1.10 Keyboard [BeyondTel USB Phone] on usb-0000:00:02.1-2 usbcore: registered new driver usbhid drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.01:USB HID core driver input: USB HID v1.00 Joystick [CH PRODUCTS CH FLIGHT SIM YOKE USB ] on usb-0000:00:02.1-1.1 input: USB HID v1.00 Joystick [CH PRODUCTS CH PRO PEDALS USB ] on usb-0000:00:02.1-1.4 I am puzzled by the fact that the keypad is recognised, but I cannot do anything with it. Any clues? Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, Keen licensed Private Pilot Retired IBM Mainframes and Sun Servers Tech Support Specialist Microsoft Windows Free Zone - Linux used for all Computing Tasks
On Thu, 2005-06-23 at 15:57 +0100, Sid Boyce wrote:
PhoneSkype USB Phone SK-04. It gets detected, is registered in /sys/bus/usb as a Key Pad. Everything else USB works, nothing from showkey. # less /sys/bus/usb/devices/usb3/3-2/3-2:1.3/interface Keypad
/dev/usb/hiddev0 and /dev/input/keyboard say they are not valid devices and they are the ones created by the 9.3 install, not by udev. From dmesg ---------- usbcore: registered new driver hiddev drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: timeout initializing reports input: USB HID v1.10 Keyboard [BeyondTel USB Phone] on usb-0000:00:02.1-2 usbcore: registered new driver usbhid drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.01:USB HID core driver input: USB HID v1.00 Joystick [CH PRODUCTS CH FLIGHT SIM YOKE USB ] on usb-0000:00:02.1-1.1 input: USB HID v1.00 Joystick [CH PRODUCTS CH PRO PEDALS USB ] on usb-0000:00:02.1-1.4 I am puzzled by the fact that the keypad is recognised, but I cannot do anything with it. Any clues? Have you tried changing the numlock on and off? It may need to be off for the keypad on the phone to work.
-- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 "The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is probably the day they start making vacuum cleaners." -Ernst Jan Plugge
Ken Schneider wrote:
On Thu, 2005-06-23 at 15:57 +0100, Sid Boyce wrote:
PhoneSkype USB Phone SK-04. It gets detected, is registered in /sys/bus/usb as a Key Pad. Everything else USB works, nothing from showkey. # less /sys/bus/usb/devices/usb3/3-2/3-2:1.3/interface Keypad
/dev/usb/hiddev0 and /dev/input/keyboard say they are not valid devices and they are the ones created by the 9.3 install, not by udev. From dmesg ---------- usbcore: registered new driver hiddev drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: timeout initializing reports input: USB HID v1.10 Keyboard [BeyondTel USB Phone] on usb-0000:00:02.1-2 usbcore: registered new driver usbhid drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.01:USB HID core driver input: USB HID v1.00 Joystick [CH PRODUCTS CH FLIGHT SIM YOKE USB ] on usb-0000:00:02.1-1.1 input: USB HID v1.00 Joystick [CH PRODUCTS CH PRO PEDALS USB ] on usb-0000:00:02.1-1.4 I am puzzled by the fact that the keypad is recognised, but I cannot do anything with it. Any clues?
Have you tried changing the numlock on and off? It may need to be off for the keypad on the phone to work.
yes tried that, still no response from showkey in VC. I wonder what device udev should create for it, I'd have expected hiddev* or keyboard. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, Keen licensed Private Pilot Retired IBM Mainframes and Sun Servers Tech Support Specialist Microsoft Windows Free Zone - Linux used for all Computing Tasks
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