Re: [Gumstix-users] Can a keyboard be used with gumstix?

[Craig H. <cr...@gu...>]

On Jul 10, 2007, at 5:32 PM, Evan Schaffer wrote:

>
> On Jun 8, 2007, at 6:5724 PM, Jeff Sadowski wrote:
>
>> A keyboard is easy with the vertex line. You can just hookup a usb
>> keyboard.
>> As for the screen that requires a little more work than I am willing
>> to put into it at this time. There are a number of people that  
>> seem to
>> have a fair amount of more knowledge on that. ;-)
>
>
> I'd like to hear from somebody that has actually hooked up a usb
> keyboard
> to the usb port.  I have a verdex-bt and an audiostix-2,
> rev 1321.  I hope I can avoid flashing, pia to hook up the console.
>
> Is it supposed to work in the default config? I see no usb devices.
> Is there a stipulated order in adding additional modules?
>
> Flailing with several of the usb modules I was able to make a usbdev
> family
> appear, but
>
> for i in `ls /dev/usb*`
> do
> echo $i
> cat $i
> done
>
> yields identical garbage for the two devices without the _epxx suffix,
> and the epxx devices are 'not found'.
>
> I don't care about being the input device for the console, i just
> want to be able to read the keyboard after successfully booting.

I just got a nice little sample keyboard which we'll probably be  
reselling soon, and plan to test it in the next day or two.  I expect  
it should work just fine.  I'll need to make sure all the right  
options are on in the kernel (I think they are already, but not 100%  
sure) and then it should be just a matter of "modprobe ohci-hcd" on  
the gumstix and plugging in the keyboard.

C