Belkin wireless keyboard problem

[dlw]

1.7ghz, 1g ram
MDK 10.1

Will a Belkin f8e8BDNL wireless keyboard and mouse work with MDK 10.2?
Mouse workds but keyboard does not.
Are there any 'how to's' on wireless keyboards?

dlw

[je_fro]

Is it a USB keyboard?
Is it detected at startup? You can tell a lot by doing
dmesg | less

and scrolling through all your startup info (q quits less)

[dlw]

No, it is not USB.
I can't enter 'dmesg | less' since the keyboard doesn't work.

A wild guess, but does this have anything to do with the kernel?
Can 'FX86Config' be changed to get it to work?

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard1"
Driver "keyboard"
Option "XkbModel" "microsoftmult"
Option "XkbLayout" "en_US"
Option "XkbOptions" "compose:rwin"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse1"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "6 7"
EndSection

dlw

[je_fro]

I doubt it has anything to do with the kernel, unless you compled it yourself and left keyboard support out. X is more likely. Either way, you're going to need to be in linux with a keyboard in order to fix your problem, so let us know when you get a kb that works.
# Core keyboard's InputDevice section
Identifier "Keyboard1"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbModel" "logicordless"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
........................................
InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard"