I am running a fresh install of Wheezy x86 and trying to connect a Targus number pad (model AKP10US) which has the USB Vendor/Model IDs of 05A4 / 9840. (FWIW the system is also running in VirtualBox)
However the only keys on the number pad that seem to work are Enter and Back. For other keys, I see escape like looking strings or I just hear a sound (which sounds like a keyboard buffer full type sound).
For example in Terminal when pressing 0 I see ^[[2~, and when pressing . I hear the sound. (As a comparison with the number pad connected to OSX, even though OSX says Unknown keyboard I still get the correct keystrokes out. But on Windows 7 its different again and I only have workable +-/* <tab> and <enter> keys)
Dumping out dmesg I get
[ 233.313462] usb 2-2: new full-speed USB device number 3 using ohci_hcd
[ 233.525221] usb 2-2: New USB device found, idVendor=05a4, idProduct=9840
[ 233.525221] usb 2-2: New USB device strings: Mfr=0, Product=1, SerialNumber=0
[ 233.525221] usb 2-2: Product: USB Compliant Keypad
[ 233.552503] input: USB Compliant Keypad as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:06.0/usb2/2-2/2-2:1.0/input/input7
[ 233.552669] generic-usb 0003:05A4:9840.0002: input,hidraw1: USB HID v1.10 Keyboard [USB Compliant Keypad] on usb-0000:00:06.0-2/input0
And for lsusb -v I get
Bus 002 Device 003: ID 05a4:9840 Ortek Technology, Inc.
Device Descriptor:
bLength 18
bDescriptorType 1
bcdUSB 1.10
bDeviceClass 0 (Defined at Interface level)
bDeviceSubClass 0
bDeviceProtocol 0
bMaxPacketSize0 8
idVendor 0x05a4 Ortek Technology, Inc.
idProduct 0x9840
bcdDevice 1.10
iManufacturer 0
iProduct 1 USB Compliant Keypad
iSerial 0
bNumConfigurations 1
Configuration Descriptor:
bLength 9
bDescriptorType 2
wTotalLength 34
bNumInterfaces 1
bConfigurationValue 1
iConfiguration 0
bmAttributes 0xa0
(Bus Powered)
Remote Wakeup
MaxPower 48mA
Interface Descriptor:
bLength 9
bDescriptorType 4
bInterfaceNumber 0
bAlternateSetting 0
bNumEndpoints 1
bInterfaceClass 3 Human Interface Device
bInterfaceSubClass 1 Boot Interface Subclass
bInterfaceProtocol 1 Keyboard
iInterface 0
HID Device Descriptor:
bLength 9
bDescriptorType 33
bcdHID 1.10
bCountryCode 0 Not supported
bNumDescriptors 1
bDescriptorType 34 Report
wDescriptorLength 65
Report Descriptors:
** UNAVAILABLE **
Endpoint Descriptor:
bLength 7
bDescriptorType 5
bEndpointAddress 0x81 EP 1 IN
bmAttributes 3
Transfer Type Interrupt
Synch Type None
Usage Type Data
wMaxPacketSize 0x0008 1x 8 bytes
bInterval 13
Device Status: 0x0000
(Bus Powered)
So it seems as if Debian has found the keyboard, but it hasn't wired it up as desired.
So what can I configure (no kernel compiling etc) to correctly enable this keyboard? Or is it actually working correctly and I just don't know it?
Edit
I just plugged in a full sized USB keyboard into the system and everything worked straight away except for the numbers of the numeric keypad. These behaved almost the same as above. However, once I pressed Numlock, even the numeric kets worked. So my guess is that the Number pad is working correctly, but that driver is not applying Numlock to the key codes coming from it.
