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A couple of questions and an offer.
Nate and I are playing with a couple of sets of the
Intel Wireless Series Peripherals. These things are ubergeeky but there is only
drivers and support for Winblows.
Here is the technical stuff. The base station
connects to your box via USB. It will support eight peripherals. The available
peripherals are a mouse, a keyboard and a gamepad. Everything is connected to
the base station by spread spectrum modulated RF so line of sight isn't
necessary. It is good for up to 3 meters at the -70dbm power available with
fresh batteries. I can't explain how totally cool these things are. You can
connect up to 4 gamepads and play multiplayer stuff, the lcd on the gamepad even
tells you what player you are (1-4).
Here's the rub. Nate has the keyboard working with
Enigma (magically worked out of the box) but needs some configuring for the
Internet and multimedia keys. The mouse and gamepad do not work yet. Does
anybody have experience with these under Linux. If not then I have a deal for
someone who wants to spend some time playing and figuring this stuff out. I will
provide a set to any one person who thinks they can get them working and then is
willing share that info. If you would like to keep the set when you are done you
can have them for approx. 45% of the retail cost of $129.97 (Circus City) or
$60. (1 base station, 1 mouse, 1 keyboard and 1 gamepad).
Any takers?
Probably OT and inappropriate but these make great
Xmas presents. I can get hundreds of them right now for slightly more than the
figure quoted above.
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Stephen D. Reindl |