Macally Icekey driver issues

The Macally Icekey driver has a serious problem.

It was evidently built with some debugging code, because it floods the console log with multiple lines of debug messages for every keystroke.

This not only makes it hard to find things in the console log, it makes it very difficult to use the console because of the messages. For example, booting to single user mode you cannot see the command line because of the spew.

The messages look like this:

5/1/09 03:47:43 kernel test handlereport
5/1/09 03:47:43 kernel the 0 position is 0, len = 8
5/1/09 03:47:43 kernel the 1 position is 0, len = 8
5/1/09 03:47:43 kernel the 2 position is 0, len = 8
5/1/09 03:47:43 kernel the 3 position is 0, len = 8
5/1/09 03:47:43 kernel the 4 position is 0, len = 8
5/1/09 03:47:43 kernel the 5 position is 0, len = 8
5/1/09 03:47:43 kernel the 6 position is 0, len = 8
5/1/09 03:47:43 kernel the 7 position is 0, len = 8

That's what a single keystroke generates in the console log.

It also makes the machine sluggish at times, or can cause missed keystrokes.

Macally seems to have no interest in fixing this and from what I have read tells users who email them "Sorry, we have no plans to fix this."

However, some users in a thread last year reported that the older Icekey drivers did not have this problem and worked much better.

Does anyone know how to get one of those old drivers or where they might be stored?

Again, Macally is no help, and this is a pretty serious issue. I paid $50 for this keyboard and I like it, but if I can solve this problem I'll end up having to toss it.

Thanks.

Message was edited by: cshapple