usb numeric keypad mapping

[Arcre]

Is it possible to get button control from a usb numeric keypad? Connected to usb 3 on DS? I have tried but was unsuccessful, we are trying program the keypad to move our arm.

[Mark McLeod]

The DS only recognizes game controllers, not numeric keypads.

[Nate Smith]

However, this does provide an interesting idea to request for additional functionality for the 2010 DS - the inclusion of a standard HID driver, which would allow for USB mouse and keyboard input.

Also, as a semi-amusing aside, has anyone tested to see if the USB ports will still supply +5v, even if they can not identify the attached device? If so, I wonder who would be the first to put something like this (http://www.thinkgeek.com/geektoys/science/964e/?cpg=ab) in as part of their driver station.

[Dave Flowerday]

However, this does provide an interesting idea to request for additional functionality for the 2010 DS - the inclusion of a standard HID driver, which would allow for USB mouse and keyboard input.
The DS already has a driver for it. Presumably all that would need to change would be for the /ds60x/bin/mgr_joysx binary on the DS to be written in a way to recognize it as input.

Additionally, the DS kernel was not compiled with support for the popular Xbox 360 joysticks (CONFIG_JOYSTICK_XPAD is not set in the kernel config). I wonder if they ever tried turning this on - I suspect it would work out of the box and enable 360 joystick support which would have made a lot of people happy.