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In <342C5E8A.2781E494@brainiac.com> Joe Hartley <jh@brainiac.com> writes:

>> But the IPX uses the keyboard as a type 4, so (main disadvantage at the
>> moment) the cursor-keys on the keyboard don't work.
>> The "manual" i got with the keyboard says you need (at least) SunOS 4.1 and
>> a BootPROM > 2.5. The IPX has a 2.6 BootPROM.

>When I first began getting Suns with type 5 keyboards, I would get a
>CD with some patches to support the keyboard.  I believe that if you
>can upgrade the OS to 4.1.3 you get the type 5 support, otherwise you
>should try to find a copy of the patches.

Yes, but the keyboard still looks like a type-4 to the system. Type-5's
don't identify themselves as type-5 kbd's - they always identify as type-4's
going from my experience with them.

I'm not sure what's happened since the Sun-4u's came out - maybe they've got
a completely new type of kbd.

Regards,

Craig.
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