HI,

Manuel Reimer wrote:
> Doug McIntyre wrote:
>
>> You need more than that. The keyboard talks a whole different protocol
>> than anything on the PC. To tell you the truth, the US $60 a USB Sun
>> keyboard costs is going to be cheaper compared to many other options.
>
>
> Maybe, but I already have the "non USB" one.
>
>> What are you trying to accomplish? Do you want to hook the keyboard up
>> to the PS2 keyboard port on your computer? Do you want to hook it up
>> to a serial port and have some software that maps keys coming in over
>> serial port into real keystrokes?
>
>
> I want to hook the keyboard to the serial port (RS232) and use the
> "sunkbd" kernel module to use the keyboard. I don't configure the BIOS
> everyday and so I don't need a PS/2 converter.
>
> So all I need are good instructions which parts I'll need (The parts
> should be available at www.reichelt.de) and good information on how to
> solder the stuff together.
>
> Thank you very much in advance
>
Okey, you want to use a Sunkeyboard to a PC running Unix right?
And you accept that the box will not be possible to control via the
keyboard until Unix is loaded.

I have never done that but I Goggle for "sunkeyboard 2 pc" and this came up.


http://www.iptel-now.de/HOWTO/SUN_SE...erial_kbd.html


Is that what you want, then it is just to start soldering, the
capacitors is needed unless you have +/-12V somewhere then you could use
MAX1488/MAX1489 instead!

I am really unsure if you need to connect transmitt from the serial port
on the PC to the sunkeyboard, is that so what is the PC transmitting,
any clue?

Otherwise you can stick to a only the MAX1489(or is it 1488??, check)
and only use +5V.

/michael