M0110 works for 4 minutes, then stops.

[Faithless]

Hello. I've been a longtime lurker here, but only recently have I build up the courage to start posting. My first post here is a question: I recently purchased an M0110 off eBay, and cleaned it to the best of my ability. I also purchased a Drakware Mac2USB adapter so that I could use the keyboard on my modern MacBook.

After about 4 minutes, the keyboard becomes unresponsive. Is this a short? If so, what do I look for in order to repair it?

Thanks in advance, friends.

M0110
 

 

[Gorgonops]

Does the keyboard work on real Mac, or is the only means you have for testing it the USB adapter?

 

[Faithless]

Unfortunately, I have a Classic II so I can't test the original keyboard. Unless there's an adaptor that allows you to plug an M0110 into a Classic II?

 

[olePigeon]

@bbraun made an adapter, but it looks like it was a kit.  It'd be worth emailing or messaging him to see if maybe he has any or can set you up to make one yourself.  Looks straight forward, mostly just a bunch of resistors.  Would be a great project to start learning how to solder.

http://www.synack.net/~bbraun/mackbd/index.html

 

[Gorgonops]

It's kind of an awkward situation you're in, because it's really hard to recommend a strategy for ruling out whether the problem is in the adapter without trying the keyboard on a Mac Plus or earlier. (Or trying the adapter with a known good keyboard, perhaps.)

Is the behavior consistent on every computer you've tried plugging the adapter into, or have you only tried the Macbook? I suppose it's also possible it's a host related issue putting the adapter to sleep.

 

[Faithless]

I will say that the adapter sometimes causes a system-wide keyboard error in the Macbook, so I now believe the keyboard itself is not the problem, but the adapter. Restarting the computer makes the M0110 work again, so I guess we can close this topic. The problem is the Drakware interface, not the M0110.

 

[Gorgonops]

That's a shame. I know I've had some annoying issues with macOS and oddball keyboards myself.

 

[Alex]

Are you going through a USB hub, if so, plug it in directly to the Mac. Are there other USB devices connected to the affected Mac? If so disconnect all other USB devices to test if there is a conflict between USB devices. Have you tried the drakware and keyboard on a different Mac to rule out the Mac you are reporting the issue against?

Reset PRAM and SMC on your Mac to rule out the Mac itself.

Also, is there a pattern to the issue you reported? For example, is it failing to operate after ~4 minutes? Does it occur after a certain action occurs like an app opening? Have you tried another use account to be sure there is not something erroneous going on with your main user account (I think this is not likely but it wouldn't hurt to try)

While testing anything above be sure to not use a USB hub nor have any other USB devices connected to the Mac. Which reminds me, have you tried to reproduce the issue using a different USB hub (sorry I don't know which MacBook you have, Apple has marketed a slew of machines under the MacBook moniker, some old, some new)

Check the System Profiler to be certain the Mac sees the drakware device.

I would also consider looking at the firmware updates that might be valid for your drakware device, https://drakware.com/firmware

 

[giolicious]

It stopped working or just every 4 minutes? 

 

[ClassicMac]

have you contacted the guy who runs drakware ? 

 

[Johnnya101]

Have you updated it? He has them on his site.

Edit: wow this is an old thread.

 

[ClassicMac]

Yea if anyone is having issues I would recommend you updating the firmware on the little thing.