On Wed, 2022-12-14 at 11:43 -0500, Haines Brown wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 14, 2022 at 11:06:21AM -0500, tempforever wrote:
> > Please elaborate on what you have tried. Initially, you had a PS/2
> > keyboard plugged into USB-adapter, and that combination went bad
> > somehow. Then you tried "A replacement keyboard and adapter." I'm
> > confused if you mean that you tried another PS/2 keyboard + USB
> > adapter
> > combination, or have you tried an actual USB keyboard? If you've
> > not
> > tried a USB keyboard yet, do that next, it would be much cheaper
> > than a
> > motherboard! Also, you tried a different USB port, but is that port
> > on
> > the same root hub? If you haven't yet, try a known-good port (the
> > one
> > the working mouse is in?). I'm guessing this newer hardware doesn't
> > have a PS/2 port? They are getting more and more rare, but they can
> > still be found.
>
> Sorry not to have been clearer. I'm usuing PS2 keyboards (IBM M5
> keyboards is all I have). My new box lacks a PS2 port and so I had to
> get av PS2-USB adapter. It worked. It has been woking for for
> about half a year.
>

The IBM Model M is a wonder but it is starting to have problems with new
systems. See this page for a possible solution:

https://ardent-tool.com/keyboard/Model_M_Mods.html



> However, this morhing I found I lacked keyboard input. When I pulled
> the keyboard and apdapter the adapter fell apart. I tried
> another PS2-USB adapter, but a different brand from the one that fell
> apart, and it did't work.
>
> Someone suggested a possible adappter-keyboard incompatibility, and
> so
> I tried the same brand adaptaer as my original one. This works, but
> only in a USB port other than the one I was orignally using. So I'm
> back in business, but perhaps with a non-functioning USB port.
>