Wireless Wackiness
The story so far: I plug in my new Mini, attach a wireless Windows keyboard and mouse, play around, shut Mini down, unplug the k & m, and...
I plug the wireless receiver for the k & m back into my Windows PC and boot it up.
WPC doesn't recognise the keyboard! It has spent only about the last 2 years living peacefully with the keyboard but now WPC is in a sulk and refuses to acknowledge the keyboard's presence! This is insane.
Over the next 45 minutes I go from incredulous to incandescent. I change the batteries in the keyboard. I click the connect buttons on the wireless receiver and the keyboard about a gazillion times. I reboot WPC about as often. I fiddle with the USB port and the plug. Nada. Zilch. WPC is about as ready to accept the straying keyboard as Anna K is to accept me as the love of her life. There is even one completely bizarre message from Windows that advises me that I do not appear to have a keyboard plugged in, so I should press any key to continue!!! Franz Kafka and the Indian bureaucracy appear to have taken up residence on my mother board. I take out my cupboard keys and try pressing those. Hey, it might work on the voodoo principle.
Finally, in complete disgust I unearth an oldfashioned wired keyboard, plug it in and WPC is satsified.
This does not bode well for my plans to use a KVM to share the keyboard, mouse and display between Mini and WPC. And the lack of well boding is duly fulfilled. The KVM does not like my wireless k & m and refuses to acknowledge them. And the whole point of having a wireless k & m and a Mini that I plan to use as a music center is that I should be able to use them from my armchair near my bed and not be wired down to my computer desk.
Bugger the KVM. In any event, I do much of my work on my notebook and only use WPC as a network server and gateway to the internet, so I can live with a wired keyboard for him and a wireless for Mini.
Time to introduce Mini to my home LAN.
I plug the wireless receiver for the k & m back into my Windows PC and boot it up.
WPC doesn't recognise the keyboard! It has spent only about the last 2 years living peacefully with the keyboard but now WPC is in a sulk and refuses to acknowledge the keyboard's presence! This is insane.
Over the next 45 minutes I go from incredulous to incandescent. I change the batteries in the keyboard. I click the connect buttons on the wireless receiver and the keyboard about a gazillion times. I reboot WPC about as often. I fiddle with the USB port and the plug. Nada. Zilch. WPC is about as ready to accept the straying keyboard as Anna K is to accept me as the love of her life. There is even one completely bizarre message from Windows that advises me that I do not appear to have a keyboard plugged in, so I should press any key to continue!!! Franz Kafka and the Indian bureaucracy appear to have taken up residence on my mother board. I take out my cupboard keys and try pressing those. Hey, it might work on the voodoo principle.
Finally, in complete disgust I unearth an oldfashioned wired keyboard, plug it in and WPC is satsified.
This does not bode well for my plans to use a KVM to share the keyboard, mouse and display between Mini and WPC. And the lack of well boding is duly fulfilled. The KVM does not like my wireless k & m and refuses to acknowledge them. And the whole point of having a wireless k & m and a Mini that I plan to use as a music center is that I should be able to use them from my armchair near my bed and not be wired down to my computer desk.
Bugger the KVM. In any event, I do much of my work on my notebook and only use WPC as a network server and gateway to the internet, so I can live with a wired keyboard for him and a wireless for Mini.
Time to introduce Mini to my home LAN.
posted by Warble at 8:47 PM
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