This is interesting. I am surprised but pleased to see that Twiddler2 plugged into USB is visible to the PCM-5822 BIOS at boot time (as an AT keyboard). The implications of this are quite significant. I have verified that all of the following are possible with Twiddler2 plugged into the USB port (via supplied USB adapter) and nothing plugged into the PS/2 port at boot time: 1) I can boot into PCM-5822 BIOS by pressing DEL on Twiddler2 immediately after power on, and configre the BIOS with Twiddler2, save changes and reboot. 2) When the LILO prompt appears, I can press TAB on Twiddler2 to display the partition names, select a partition to boot, and send paramters to the kernel if necessary. 3) If my master boot record gets corrupted, I can boot from floppy with a LILO boot disk, and the Twiddler2 works at the boot: prompt, allowing me to mount a partition for booting and send parameters to the kernel if necessary. 4) I can boot from floppy with a slackware boot disk, load the root disk, run fdisk, create ext2 file systems, set up swap partitions, and run all the way through the slackware setup (install) program with Twiddler2. That is all pretty cool considering that there are no PS/2 devices plugged in. The USB keyboard/mouse adapter that comes with Twiddler2 seems to be an excellent companion to PCM-5822. I wonder if all this is possible on other SBC motherboards??? This is quite a leap over the original twiddler. Its now possible to toss the PS/2 keyboard altogether and do everything with USB. The other thing that I thought was cool is that kernel 2.2.18 includes the twiddler drivers for the serial port keyboard/mouse. And when I run the slackware setup program, twiddler shows up in the keyboard configuration dialog, right up there with ps/2 and micro$oft mouse (way to go HandyKey!). I don't need those drivers for the Twiddler2, but its great to see them there. Linux is growing up really fast, and harware support is Nice work HandyKey, Advantech, and Linux Community ... -- Doug -- Subscription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with subject of "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" toWear-Hard Mailing List Archive (searchable): http://wearables.blu.org please, Please, *PLEASE* don't subscribe through a forward/false domain
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