> As I type on my shiny new Kinesis keyboard, I realize that I now have two
> programmable keyboard (this and a Gateway programmable) on my various Linux
> machines and no way to use the host-programmability features besides
> figuring out how DOS works and playing with the software.
>
> Has anyone managed to figure out how these things work and reverse-engineer
> a driver for them? I think they twiddle some keyboard line to turn it into
> a low-speed serial port, but I have no idea how.
>
Actually the keyboard cable is already bidirectional to control the LEDs,
so I would suspect they have only extended the command set.
Gabriel.