wireless keyboard with built in touchpad

Anish Mistry mistry.7 at osu.edu
Sun Jul 31 21:23:16 GMT 2005


On Sunday 31 July 2005 04:12 pm, Brian K. White wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Brian K. White" <brian at aljex.com>
> To: <freebsd-usb at freebsd.org>; <freebsd-current at freebsd.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, July 06, 2005 3:35 AM
> Subject: Re: wireless keyboard with built in touchpad
>
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Brian K. White" <brian at aljex.com>
> > To: <freebsd-usb at freebsd.org>; <freebsd-current at freebsd.org>
> > Sent: Saturday, July 02, 2005 8:33 PM
> > Subject: wireless keyboard with built in touchpad
> >
> >>I have a VGP-WKB1  Sony Vaio usb, 2.4gz rf wireless, keyboard
> >> with built-in touch pad and seperate wireless mouse.
> >>
> >> Gizmodo article
> >> http://www.gizmodo.com/gadgets/peripherals/input/vaio-vgpwkb1-wi
> >>reless-keyboard-with-touchpad-036744.php
> >>
> >> Sony product page
> >> http://www.sonystyle.com/is-bin/INTERSHOP.enfinity/eCS/Store/en/
> >>-/USD/SY_DisplayProductInformation-Start?ProductSKU=VGPWKB1&Categ
> >>oryName=hid_pr_p_20_per_ecoupon_all&DCMP=CNET_DF&HQS=NBA_VGPWKB1
> >>
> >> better pictures on this japanese page:
> >> http://www.watch.impress.co.jp/akiba/hotline/20050319/etc_vgpwkb
> >>1.html
> >
> > [...]
> >
> >> Like all the others I tried, the keyboard part of this works
> >> fine on 5.4-release (what thinbsd is built on)
> >> and the mouse is unrecognized.
> >> Ordinary usb mice work fine, including when indirectly connected
> >> via hubs. I have one slim wired usb keyoard which has a built in
> >> 2 port hub and a usb mouse works fine plugged into it.
> >
> > [...]
> >
> >> Who can I bribe to get the mouse working ?
> >> Can I buy one of these and give it to someone (as in it's yours
> >> forever) in return for updating the mouse detection in usbd or
> >> in the kernel? or even just figuring out whatever cheap hack
> >> would allow it to work like maybe just commenting uhid out of
> >> the kernel config like you have to do for apcupsd?
> >>
> >> dmesg on 5.4-release shows this near the end:
> >>
> >> ukbd0: Sony RF Receiver, rev 1.10/1.00, addr 2, iclass 3/1 kbd1
> >> at ukbd0 uhid0: Sony RF Receiver, rev 1.10/1.00, addr 2, iclass
> >> 3/1 kbd1 at ukbd0
> >>

What happens if you "cat /dev/uhid0" and try clicking the mouse 
buttons or moving on the pad?

-- 
Anish Mistry
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