Microsoft Natural keyboard vendor/product strings aren't displayed

[Paul Schmehl]

--On Tuesday, July 22, 2008 23:44:26 +0100 Bruce Cran <bruce at cran.org.uk> wrote:

> I've come across a strange issue with the detection of a Microsoft
> Natural Elite keyboard I recently bought and am using with FreeBSD 7.0
> with the PS/2-USB adapter that came with it. I've had a look through
> some of the usb code and found the usbdevs file which I guess generates
> a database of vendor/product strings that get used if the identification
> data can't be read from the device itself. However, although my
> keyboard is listed in usbdevs that information doesn't seem to get used
> when it's attached:
>
> ukbd0: <vendor 0x045e product 0x000b, class 0/0, rev 1.00/0.82, addr 3>
> on uhub3
>

Something is wrong with your system.  Here's the line in dmesg.boot on my 
workstation:

ukbd0: <vendor 0x045e Microsoft Natural Keyboard Elite, class 0/0, rev 
2.00/2.07, addr 3> on uhub3
kbd2 at ukbd0

I believe this is the same keyboard you are using:

# grep "Keyboard Elite" /usr/src/sys/dev/usb/*
/usr/src/sys/dev/usb/usbdevs:product MICROSOFT NATURALKBD       0x000b  Natural 
Keyboard Elite

# devinfo -v | grep 0x045e
                ukbd0 pnpinfo vendor=0x045e product=0x000b devclass=0x00 
devsubclass=0x00 release=0x0207 sernum="" intclass=0x03 intsubclass=0x01 at 
port=0 interface=0

-- 
Paul Schmehl
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