Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2003 21:48:19 -0500 From: "Micheal Patterson" <micheal@tsgincorporated.com> To: <stacey@vickiandstacey.com>, "FreeBSD Questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: samba PDC vs IBM T21 keyboard Message-ID: <090d01c37a6a$a9feb570$0201a8c0@dredster> References: <1063506302.924.13.camel@localhost>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
----- Original Message ----- From: "Stacey Roberts" <stacey@vickiandstacey.com> To: "FreeBSD Questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Sent: Saturday, September 13, 2003 9:25 PM Subject: samba PDC vs IBM T21 keyboard > Hello, > I've got a strange (to me at least) problem here. > > I'm running samba (version: samba-2.2.8a) as a PDC on a network. I've > just joined an IBM T21 WinXP Pro laptop to the domain, which went > through okay, except for one unexpected factor: > > The T21's keymapping appears to be all crazy. By that, I'd refer you to > keys U, I, O, P, J, K, L, : and M. > > All of these keys have alternate chars printed on them - for instance > the "P" has "*" and "O" has a "6", and so on. > > Whenever a user logs onto the domain, these "secondary" chars appear to > be the ones in use, and what you'd expect for "P" actually gets output > as the "*" char. This happens regardless of the user that logs in, as > long as its on the network, then those other chars appear to take > precedence. This behaviour appears in all applications as well, from M$ > Word to attempts at typing a url into the address bar in IE. > > If I didn't know any better, I'd almost want to suggest that the key > mapping appears to be that of a regular PS/2 keyboard! > > Has anyone noticed anything like this? If there's any more info I can > provide, I'm willing to. > > Thanks for the time. > > Regards, > > Stacey > -- > Stacey Roberts > B.Sc (HONS) Computer Science > > Web: www.vickiandstacey.com > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > Sounds like the 10 key function of the keyboard has been enabled. -- Micheal Patterson Network Administration Cancer Care Network 405-917-0600
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?090d01c37a6a$a9feb570$0201a8c0>