Black Box AC249A User manual

1000 Park Drive • Lawrence, PA 15055-1018 • 724-746-5500 • Fax 724-746-0746

AUGUST 2000

AC249A

PS/2→USB Converter

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PS/2→USB

Converter

FCC AND IC STATEMENTS

FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION

AND

INDUSTRY CANADA

RADIO-FREQUENCY INTERFERENCE STATEMENTS

Class B Digital Device. This equipment has been tested and found to comply with

the limits for a Class B computing device pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC Rules.

These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful

interference in a residential installation. However, there is no guarantee that

interference will not occur in a particular installation. This equipment generates,

uses, and can radiate radio frequency energy, and, if not installed and used in

accordance with the instructions, may cause harmful interference to radio

communications. If this equipment does cause harmful interference to radio or

telephone reception, which can be determined by turning the equipment off

and on, the user is encouraged to try to correct the interference by one of the

following measures:

• Reorient or relocate the receiving antenna.

• Increase the separation between the equipment and receiver.

• Connect the equipment into an outlet on a circuit different from that to

which the receiver is connected.

• Consult an experienced radio/TV technician for help.

Caution:

Changes or modifications not expressly approved by the party

responsible for compliance could void the user’s authority to

operate the equipment.

This digital apparatus does not exceed the Class A limits for radio noise emission from

digital apparatus set out in the Radio Interference Regulation of Industry Canada.

Le présent appareil numérique n’émet pas de bruits radioélectriques dépassant les limites

applicables aux appareils numériques de classe A prescrites dans le Règlement sur le

brouillage radioélectrique publié par Industrie Canada.

EUROPEAN UNION DECLARATION OF CONFORMITY

The PS/2→USB Converter has been tested and found to comply with the

requirements of the EMC Directive 89/336/EEC.

TRADEMARKS USED IN THIS MANUAL

BLACK BOX and the logo are registered trademarks, and ServSwitch is

a trademark, of Black Box Corporation.

Apple, Mac, Macintosh, are registered trademarks, and iMac is a trademark,

of Apple Computer, Inc.

IBM and PS/2 are registered trademarks of IBM.

Microsoft, IntelliMouse, Windows, and Windows NT are trademarks or

registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States

and/or other countries.

Any other trademarks mentioned in this manual are acknowledged to be the property of

the trademark owners.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Contents

Chapter Page

1. Specifications ..................................................... 4

2. Introduction ....................................................... 6

2.1 Overview ...................................................... 6

2.2 System Requirements ................................. 8

2.3 Features ....................................................... 9

3. Installation ....................................................... 10

4. Operation ......................................................... 12

4.1 The LEDs ...................................................12

4.2 The Wakeup Button ................................. 12

5. Troubleshooting .............................................. 14

5.1 Calling Black Box ..................................... 14

5.2 Shipping and Packaging ......................... 15

1. Specifications

Operating System Required — Microsoft Windows 98 or

Windows 2000 or higher (not Windows NT) or

Mac OS 8.6 or higher

Compliance — CE; FCC Class B, IC Class/classe B

Standards — USB 1.0 and 1.1

Interfaces — USB, IBM PS/2 keyboard/mouse

User Controls — (1) Bottom-mounted pushbutton for

waking the computer from sleep mode

Indicators — (2) Top-mounted LEDs: (1) for keyboard

activity and (1) for mouse activity

Connectors — (1) USB Type A male at the end of an

11.8-inch (30-cm) cable and (2) 6-pin mini-DIN female

mounted on the end of the Converter body

Temperature Tolerance —

Operating: 41 to 104˚F (5 to 40˚C);

Storage: –4 to +176˚F (–20 to +80˚ C)

Humidity Tolerance — Up to 80% noncondensing

Enclosure — Plastic

CHAPTER 1: Specifications

Power — Unit gets all its power from the USB bus

Size — 0.9"H x 2.2"W x 3.2"D (2.3 x 5.5 x 8.2 cm)

Weight — 2.6 oz. (50 g)

2. Introduction

2.1 Overview

Universal Serial Bus (USB) port technology has

emerged in response to the proliferation of external

peripheral devices that are increasingly being connected

to the latest generation of PCs: keyboards, mice,

scanners, digital cameras, removable-disk drives, etc.

USB behaves in a way similar to older buses such as the

RS-232 serial, IBM®PC parallel, and IBM PS/2®

keyboard/mouse buses, but it is much faster. Also,

because it doesn’t need to be assigned any of the

computer’s IRQ (interrupt request) lines, more devices

can be attached to it, and the perennial computer-

peripheral problem of IRQ conflict is eliminated.

You can use the PS/2→USB Converter (product code

AC249A) to attach a PS/2 type keyboard and mouse to a

desktop, laptop, or handheld computer that uses USB

instead of the PS/2 keyboard/mouse bus. This is

especially useful for laptops, because you can attach an

external mouse and keyboard to them at the same time

without causing conflicts.

CHAPTER 2: Introduction

On one end, the Converter has two 6-pin mini-DIN

connectors that you’ll plug the mouse and keyboard

into, marked with the appropriate icons. On the other

end, it has a 1-ft. (30.5-cm) cable with a USB Type A

plug that you can attach to the USB port of a computer.

If your computer, like many of today’s models, only

has one or two USB ports, you might want to attach the

Converter to the computer through a “USB hub” such as

our USB Director (product code IC165A). The hub will

provide additional USB ports so that you can connect

more devices to the computer at the same time.

The Converter can also be used to attach PS/2

keyboards and mice to the user ports of all-USB KVM

switches, or to attach iMac™ and other computers that

have only USB ports to the computer ports of PS/2 type

KVM switches.

The PS/2→USB Converter gets all its power from the

attached computer through the Universal Serial Bus, so

you don’t need an external power supply for it. And

because it’s fully USB compliant, the Converter also

supports energy-saving “suspend” and “resume”

operations.

2.2 System Requirements

To use the PS/2→USB Converter, your computer needs

to be either (a) an IBM PC compatible machine

running Microsoft®Windows®98 or Windows 2000 or

higher or (b) an Apple®Macintosh®compatible

machine running Mac®OS 8.6 or higher. The computer

must have a USB host controller installed and must have

at least one free USB port.

NOTE

Do not attach the Converter to a PC running Windows NT®.

Windows NT does not support USB properly.

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