Reassign F Keys for Generic Keyboard?

[king13p]

Hello everyone,

I just bought a 8 port KVM to go into my server rack. Its a trendnet tk-803r.

I plugged in a Microsoft Mouse and an Aluminum Apple Keyboard into the KVM.

I'm using this with 2 Macs (1 Mac Pro, 1 Hack Pro) and 2 PC Servers.

On the macs when I first started it didn't recognize the keyboard, Came up saying to type the Z key and the / Key.

Now when I press F12 to increase the Volume, The dashboard pops up. Press F11 to decrease the volume will show the Desktop.

I was able to reassign these keys to what there proper input should be which is F3 and F4 on my keyboard, But I don't see anything on Volume Up, Down, And Mute.

Also, Plugging the Mac Keyboard directly works. (However I want this Plugged into my KVM.)

Is there anyway to map Vol Up to F12, Vol Down to F11, Mute to F10 ETC ETC?

Thanks for any Help!

 

[eelhead]

Did you try the FN key with the F10 F11 or F12, that should give you your volume control.
If you use FN with the assigned F keys you will control, volume, brightness and DVD controls as well as Eject.

 

[evanhindra]

Hello everyone,

I just bought a 8 port KVM to go into my server rack. Its a trendnet tk-803r.

I plugged in a Microsoft Mouse and an Aluminum Apple Keyboard into the KVM.

I'm using this with 2 Macs (1 Mac Pro, 1 Hack Pro) and 2 PC Servers.

On the macs when I first started it didn't recognize the keyboard, Came up saying to type the Z key and the / Key.

Now when I press F12 to increase the Volume, The dashboard pops up. Press F11 to decrease the volume will show the Desktop.

I was able to reassign these keys to what there proper input should be which is F3 and F4 on my keyboard, But I don't see anything on Volume Up, Down, And Mute.

Also, Plugging the Mac Keyboard directly works. (However I want this Plugged into my KVM.)

Is there anyway to map Vol Up to F12, Vol Down to F11, Mute to F10 ETC ETC?

Thanks for any Help!

I don't know if this would work for you, but try one of these two things:
1) KeyRemap4MacBook — Despite the name it'll work on any Mac OS X.
http://lifehacker.com/5882684/the-best-keyboard-remapper-for-mac-os-x
http://pqrs.org/macosx/keyremap4macbook/

2) FunctionFlip — Seems like a simpler approach, but I don't think this remaps anything. It just flips the availability on OS X functions on specific F-key without having to press the Fn button.
http://kevingessner.com/software/functionflip/

Sorry if I misunderstood your post.

 

[king13p]

I tried the FN keys plus Vol Up, Vol Down ETC but there wasn't any change.

I was going to be content with it and just use a PC keyboard for the KVM and my Mac Keyboard for the mac but then

I tried KeyRemap4MacBook and that Worked Pretty Good. I got my keys reassigned! Everything except Eject but thats not too big of a deal.

Thank You Very Much!

 

[ihacky]

with noejectdelay the F12 eject can be disabled, it isn't ideal but later on the F12 can be reassigned