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	ciaopubs	2007-04-23 , 06:11
	Posts: 11 \| Thanked: 7 times \| Joined on Apr 2007 @ Seattle, WA	#1

I just got my N800 a week and a half ago.

I picked up a Targus USB keyboard, but I can't get it to work with the N800. I verified that it will work when attached to the USB port of my Mac. The keyboard comes with a 4-pin male to USB A male, so I had to get an A female to 5-pin male adaptor.

I read one post indicating that I might need to attach the keyboard to a powered USB hub, but I had no luck with that, plugging either the keyboartd or the N800 into the hub's input and the other to an output.

Ideas? Do I need to return the USB keyboard and get a Bluetooth one instead?

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	johsua	2007-04-23 , 06:40
	Posts: 449 \| Thanked: 18 times \| Joined on Apr 2006 @ Eureka, CA	#2

Originally Posted by ciaopubs

I just got my N800 a week and a half ago.

I picked up a Targus USB keyboard, but I can't get it to work with the N800. I verified that it will work when attached to the USB port of my Mac. The keyboard comes with a 4-pin male to USB A male, so I had to get an A female to 5-pin male adaptor.

I read one post indicating that I might need to attach the keyboard to a powered USB hub, but I had no luck with that, plugging either the keyboartd or the N800 into the hub's input and the other to an output.

Ideas? Do I need to return the USB keyboard and get a Bluetooth one instead?

The n800 does not support usb host mode - yet. Get a BT KB. I use a ThinkOutside model that works very well out of the box. Check priceline. There is also a ton of info on this web site - just search:

http://www.internettablettalk.com/forums/search.php

good luck.

Last edited by johsua; 2007-04-23 at 06:43.

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	lkravovicz	2007-04-24 , 07:19
	Posts: 132 \| Thanked: 148 times \| Joined on Mar 2007 @ Tallinn, Estonia	#3

yep, running the thinkoutside stowaway + n800 like a charm here.

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DryLand404	2007-04-24 , 13:14
Posts: 96 \| Thanked: 1 time \| Joined on Feb 2007	#4

"I use a ThinkOutside model that works very well out of the box. Check priceline."
Do you mean pricewatch.com?
Priceline.com is a travel site.

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joku	2007-04-26 , 08:50
Posts: 2 \| Thanked: 0 times \| Joined on Apr 2007	#5

You can connect a usb keyboard to the nokia 770. I saw this at youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSMKO_sbncY

and an other interesting link about nokia 770 + usb keyboard, which I don't understand :-)
http://tabletblog.com/2006/01/usb-po...host-mode.html

I hope that it is possible to connect a usb-keyboard to a n800. But how?

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	Karel Jansens	2007-04-26 , 10:12
	Posts: 3,220 \| Thanked: 326 times \| Joined on Oct 2005 @ "Almost there!" (Monte Christo, Count of)	#6

Originally Posted by joku

You can connect a usb keyboard to the nokia 770. I saw this at youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSMKO_sbncY

and an other interesting link about nokia 770 + usb keyboard, which I don't understand :-)
http://tabletblog.com/2006/01/usb-po...host-mode.html

I hope that it is possible to connect a usb-keyboard to a n800. But how?

Here's "770-USB 101":

The USB port of the 770 can be forced into host mode (the mode where you can plug all kinds of interesting stuff into your 770 and make it go with it) via a software hack. That's the easy part.

The problem is the hardware: Nokia didn't see fit to connect power to the USB port in the 770, meaning that all that interesting stuff won't go, because there's no power to make it go. There is a hardware hack (that's the second link you referred to) that will give external power to your 770's USB port and make aforementioned interesting stuff go: "Ahhhh -- power! Nice...", but it's not trivial and you need to read the instructions carefully.

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	Karel Jansens	2007-04-26 , 10:14
	Posts: 3,220 \| Thanked: 326 times \| Joined on Oct 2005 @ "Almost there!" (Monte Christo, Count of)	#7

None of the above works with the N800 though.

Although apparently some clever dicks have cracked the N800's USB code:
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/list...velopers/21371

You're advised to consider this even more risqué than the 770 hack.

Edit: 1,100 posts! Jay!
(You'll never stop me, I tell ya'! Mwooahahahaaah!!!!)

Last edited by Karel Jansens; 2007-04-26 at 10:18.

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	euchreprof	2007-04-26 , 13:06
	Posts: 344 \| Thanked: 6 times \| Joined on Jan 2007	#8

I came on here back in 2005 when the Nokia 770 launched and ALMOST bought one... fast forward 1.5 years I came back cuz I heard about the Nokia N800 launch... then the first day I came back I remember (like it was just yesterday) you swearing up and down you would never get a Nokia N800 under any circumstances whatsoever... you went on for days about this same topic... until of course... you bought a Nokia N800 one week later. lol

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	Karel Jansens	2007-04-26 , 15:15
	Posts: 3,220 \| Thanked: 326 times \| Joined on Oct 2005 @ "Almost there!" (Monte Christo, Count of)	#9

Originally Posted by euchreprof

I came on here back in 2005 when the Nokia 770 launched and ALMOST bought one... fast forward 1.5 years I came back cuz I heard about the Nokia N800 launch... then the first day I came back I remember (like it was just yesterday) you swearing up and down you would never get a Nokia N800 under any circumstances whatsoever... you went on for days about this same topic... until of course... you bought a Nokia N800 one week later. lol

Are you talking to me?