mceusb2 support for Microsoft Remote Keyboard?

[Chris P. <li...@fo...>]

There have been some users on the mythtv-users mailing list asking about 
this keyboard, and since I recently acquired one as part of a system 
bundle, I thought I'd take it upon myself to get a definite answer about 
linux/lirc support for the device.

It's my understanding from searching the mailing list archives that the 
mceusb2 driver works fine for the remote/receiver bundle that MS sells, 
and that it's possible that the keyboard can be made to work.  However, 
I'm hoping someone can tell me if the mouse embedded in the keyboard can 
be made to work with lircmd, and can confirm that the keyboard itself 
can be made to work outside of merely controlling lirc-aware programs 
(meaning, can lirc make it look like a real keyboard so I can use it in 
console mode, etc?)

My receiver also came with two IR blaster modules to plug into it, so 
I'm also wondering if these will work, too.

If I can't get a fully functioning keyboard/mouse out of the setup, I'd 
rather sell the hardware to offset the cost of my system, so I'd rather 
not unpack them to do much testing/tinkering only to find out that they 
don't work.

-Chris