[NTLUG:Discuss] Wireless Keyboard

[Burton M. Strauss III]

The drivers don't handle the basic mouse/keyboard functionality - that's
handled by the HID (Human Interface Driver) system in both Windows and
Linux.

What the drivers do is all the extra, special functions - fancy scroll
wheel, pointer acceleration, special function keys to launch your browser,
etc.

However, as things like wheels have become more common, the basic drivers
have been enhanced to support them - and more and more things 'just work'.

Look in your Windows control panel and you will see the other things the
driver provides.
-----Burton

> -----Original Message-----
> From: discuss-bounces at ntlug.org [mailto:discuss-bounces at ntlug.org]On
> Behalf Of Ralph Miller
> Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2004 10:38 AM
> To: discuss at ntlug.org
> Subject: [NTLUG:Discuss] Wireless Keyboard
>
>
> Please explain why this works.
>
> I bought a "Microsoft Wireless Desktop Elite Keyboard"
> and "Wireless Intellimouse Explorer 2.0" combination.
> Both have tilt wheels.  Nice!  Once I swapped the
> connections for the receiver to the PC, they work
> great.  Nice not to have wires.
>
> BTW, Office Depot has a $30 rebate right now ($10
> there and $20 mail-in), so the end cost will be $70,
> not $100 (or as they say, "$99.99).
>
> I installed the CD with drivers for both with Windows
> XP as the OS.  Then I removed the hard drive with XP
> and installed the HD with RHLinux9, but did add
> drivers for them.   I expected they would not work.
> However, they work great here, too.
>
> Question:  Why do they work on the Linux hard drive
> when no special drivers were added, while XP required
> them?
>
> Thanks, Ralph M.
>
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