>Your main problem, is going to be getting the architecture to recognize
>your keypad as the "Keyboard". You might be able to do that by "hooking"
>the keyboard interrupts with a TSR, but that means shutting off the
>keyboard in the BIOS. Alternately, you can redirect "Con" to the port you
>plug the keypad into, but will again need to be able to shut off the
>keyboard in the BIOS.

If i use the guts of a keyboard wont this solve the problem?


>But what the heck, if you are going to tear down a keyboard anyway, why
>not use the dedicated serial port that was meant for the keyboard, and
>save yourself a little trouble?

not sure i understand.....
here is a better explanation of what i am trying to do,
I am going to be booting a PC in a car, it needs something hooked to the
PS/2
port to boot,  I am running a program  in place of explorer.exe shell
 since it will be all that I am useing.  I need to then controll that
program with a PS/2
Keyboard, HOWEVER ... the only keys I need are some of the numpad keys...
The whole keyboard is too big to fit in my car, so esentialy what i was
thinking
is to remove the case and keys from an old keyboard.... looking at which
buttons
 went to which pin on the keyboard chip and just hooking a 4x4 keypad to the
apropriate pins.....

is that going to work?


regards,
Ryan