Hi Marvin, > Can I use a USB keyboard with freedos? I havent tried using freedos > yet, but I would like to. I've got a few PCs connected to a USB KVM > switch, which will be connected to the USB port of my main workstation. > Will freedos work out of the box with USB or will I have to connect > an adapter to the PS/2 keyboard socket?
Modern BIOSes will support both USB keyboard and USB mouse, because you would not be able to use them in the BIOS setup otherwise. Sometimes you will have to enable something like USB legacy support to activate the built-in drivers of the BIOS. For DOS, your USB keyboard and mouse will behave as if they are PS/2, so no special drivers will be needed :-). Note that while Windows 3.1 in standard mode works well, FreeDOS has problems with Windows for Workgroups 3.11 and with 386enh mode. You can try the experimental so- called Winkern(el) of FreeDOS to make WfW 3.11 run. Now talking about MS DOS 6 USB drivers: You can only use the first 8 GB of your harddisk in MS DOS 6 (no LBA support) but if you need USB drivers for DOS, it will not matter whether you use them in MS DOS or in FreeDOS. Again, for USB disk / flash stick / cardreader / similar, a modern BIOS will have built-in drivers. In some cases those will only be active if you boot from the USB device. If your BIOS has no suitable drivers, you can use proprietary DOS drivers like USBASPI with ASPIDISK, DUSE or the drivers made by Georg Potthast (work in progress). Eric > Also so I can compare freedos with Windows 3.11 and > Dos 6.22, are there USB drivers around for that system? ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
