dmesg - odd response

[Michael Gordon]

Carthik Sharma wrote:

>
>
> On 9/20/05, *Tom* <sett at iinet.net.au <mailto:sett at iinet.net.au>> wrote:
>
>     I have just used the dmesg command with no additional options and it
>     completed the output I expected but at the end it gave a series of
>     line-pairs all identical ....
>
>
>     atkbd.c: Unknown key released (translated set 2, code 0x81 on
>     isa0060/serio0).
>     atkbd.c: Use 'setkeycodes e001 <keycode>' to make it known.
>
>     What does this indicate and is there something I need to do somewhere?
>
>
> I suspect you have a dell laptop, or a microsoft keyboard, with 
> special keys, some of which are not mapped.
>
> Search for "setkeycodes e001 <keycode>" on google and you'll find a 
> few people talking about it. Since I don't know more about your 
> laptop/desktop I can't be of any more help :)
>
> Carthik.

I personally wouldn't worry about it. It could also be pushing the 
Function key on a laptop keyboard (it's blue on my Dell Latitude D505). 
Perhaps turning on your wireless card requires it? I think that's 
actually not OS-dependent, as I've seen Fn+F2 turn on and off my 
wireless card in linux and Windows.

You could, of course, map those keys to do something like Carthik says, 
but the question is, do you actually use those buttons?


Michael