[SLL] tab button gets stuck down when no keyboard plugged in?

Russell Evans russell-evans at qwest.net
Fri May 6 17:26:13 PDT 2005


On Fri, 06 May 2005 16:52:26 -0700
"Glen Journeay" <journeay at silverlink.net> wrote:

> Ben,
> 
> Assuming this is just some form of motherboard madness when the
> keyboard is unplugged, would you have the space available to plug a
> keyboard back in and lock it away?  I have seen this type of behavior
> before on some of our keyboardless systems out at work, but the
> specific solutions escape me right now.  So just plugging a keyboard
> in and tucking it away is the easy solution.  I realize it may not be
> possible. 

You should be able to find a $2 keyboard at a garage sale, thrift store,
or used PC store if you want to try to make your own "keyboard emulator"
instead of purchasing a real keyboard emulator

The hardware hack
http://ohlandl.kev009.com/keyboard/Keyboard.html#KB_Emulator_Hack

The $47.90-61.66 solution
http://shopper.cnet.com/4014-6595_9-30714198.html?tag=range

Thank you
Russell



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