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PS2 Keyboard on Mac Plus Troubleshooting 95 posts Jun 9, 2013 — Oct 4, 2022
Nice! I'll checkout the code and give it a try. All it needs is two UARTS, right?

No uarts necessary, although I'm using usart2 for debugging messages.

2 GPIOs for ps2 mouse, 2 for keyboard, 1 is all that's *really* required for ADB, although there's also the power toggle line. Then grounds to everything.

It's difficult to tell what the problem is there.Does toggling the capslock key toggle the led? If so, then at least the adapter and ps2 keyboard are talking.
False alarm - I had the adapter board connected though both the ADB and pre-ADB interfaces at the same time. :I That probably didn't help.

I tried it again with just the ADB interface, and it all worked smoothly, keyboard and mouse. Thanks!

I've tried several different Macs now with all the PS/2 devices I have, pre-ADB and ADB, and aside from the occasional problems already mentioned it works great. I give it my official QA sign-off! :) Let me know if there's anything else specific you'd like me to test.

Awesome! I'm glad it's working for you, and thanks for the feedback.

I've got the PCBs for the USB based adapter. They were ordered before the initial feedback, so they still attach the same way the current ones do: on the bottom of the discovery board. They also lack the indicator of how it should attach. But, they should be good enough to work with, I've just been distracted by other things recently. Hopefully I'll be able to get working on it soon.

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