If you want a fun project, you will need a piece of hardware that is flexible enough to allow software to control it to such a degree that it can understand the PS2 protocol.
In the same way, you can't change the PS2 controller in your keyboard or mouse to speak the USB protocol. Because there's no way to reprogram the USB host controller. But you can't reprogram the USB host controller to speak anything else besides the USB protocol, even if you are a crack firmware developer. If they don't, then you have the USB host controller in your PC speaking to the PS2 controller in your keyboard and mouse. The passive PS2-to-USB adapters require the keyboard or mouse to be multi-protocol: The keyboard or mouse must natively speak the USB protocol in addition to the PS2 protocol. I want to find a way, using software, to interface my laptop and the PS/2 keyboard/mouse using the adapters I bought.Īssuming you want to use the passive PS2-to-USB adapter you just bought to plug it into a USB port on your Windows 10 PC, then this will not work. I have a reasonable understanding of windows, computers, and basic hardware, however my knowledge of drivers, firmware, and what makes windows work is limited.ĮDIT: Not quite sure if this question belongs on this site.
If not, which skills do I need to find a solution, and what is the quickest & easiest way to learn them? Is there a existing way to help windows interpret the signals the adapted keyboard/ mouse are sending it? Through both stubbornness not to spend any money, and the fact that it will be a cool project and way to learn how this stuff works, I want to find a way, using software, to interface my laptop and the PS/2 keyboard/mouse using the adapters I bought Sidenote: I don't actually know if that amazon one is a converter or adapter, but it looks similar to what I got. However, a salesman at an anonymous-remaining electronics company sold me a pair of passive PS/2 to USB adapters, like this not-so nice one from Amazon, which simply changes the pin positions from PS/2 to to USB, but not the data or protocol - which windows 10 doesn't know natively how to make sense of. I am fully aware that the easiest way to do this would to use an active PS/2 to USB converter, like this nice one from Amazon, learning this from reading it here on Tom's hardware forums, here on the lenovo forums, here on alt windows 10 forums, and even here on wikipedia. I want to use my old PS/2 mouse & keyboard with my Dell Latitude, which has no PS/2 ports.
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