Logitech Cordless Number Pad???

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Logitech Cordless Number Pad???

How do I set up Logitech's Cordless Number Pad for Notebooks on my Leopard iMac 24"? It's a USB plug and play (although the packaging specifies it's for the Windows system).

The firs time I plugged it in, Leopard put of a graphic trying to identify the "keyboard" which instructed me to press the key to the right of the left shift button. No such button on a number pad.

Further pushing of the pad's reset and the usb receiver connect button produce no results.

The Logitech support site is no help, although there are few others posting the same question.

Does this have anything to do with the LCC drivers, and do I need them?

Any ideas?

MacBook, Mac OS X (10.4.7), Dual Core Intel

Posted on Nov 27, 2007 7:35 PM

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Answer 1

Nov 27, 2007 8:16 PM in response to LGGeiger

It's been a while since I tried this on one of those Bluetooth nuevo keyboards with the keypad, or whatever they're called. But I couldn't get it to work either, and I'm pretty sure it's a driver issue (meaning, no drivers = no joy).

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LGGeiger Author

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Nov 28, 2007 6:23 AM in response to Community User

This is a USB device, not Bluetooth... and I have the Logitech USB Cordless Mini Optical Mouse which works fine. I figure if one Logitech USB device works, why not another?

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Nov 28, 2007 9:59 AM in response to LGGeiger

Because every device is different, that's why. (and bluetooth vs usb probably doesn't matter either way in this case). In addition, I've seen lots of Logitech or Microsoft USB keyboards that "work" - but not every feature. For example, dedicated function buttons for things like "launch media player" or "volume" may not work, because they're predicated on a SOFTWARE DRIVER communicating between the keyboard and the system. No driver means that only the basic keys will work, not extended keys that do specific functions.

Just because a USB mouse or keyboard works, doesn't mean automatically the numeric keypad will work. My guess is that keypad that doesn't work, doesn't work because it needs a driver present to communicate input from the keypad to the system.

Message was edited by: Vince DiStefano

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Answer 4

Dec 20, 2007 11:47 PM in response to Community User

Surely there is a fix for this issue. I'm left-handed and would love to be able to use one of those wireless(USB) number pads so I could position it to the left of the keyboard. I purchased a logi-tech model that I love but the only functions that work when using with my Mac are the enter key and the backspace. The driver issue makes sense but in the big scheme of things, seems like an easy and much needed fix...

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AjHome

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Dec 27, 2007 4:07 PM in response to HollywoodLeased

I too am wondering what I need to do to get this Logitech cordless number pad to work in OSX. I understand that devices need drivers, but this particular device needs no additional drivers in Windows, why would it need anything additional on the Mac? Surely standard/default drivers are available in OSX, correct? It's as if the preferences just need to understand that the 'keyboard' is a number pad. Currently, the options in System Preferences seem to think that a full keyboard is the only option. When you go through the setup, it asks for Japanese, ANSI or US keyboard layouts - no mention of options for number pads.

There are enough Macs that do not have numeric pads, that I would Apple would provide support for external numeric pads? Hopefully someone has a solution.

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