Apple keyboard Num Lock?

[aritjahja]

My problem is different regarding this numeric keypad problem. I have a relatively cheap external USB numeric keypad. It had worked just fine with my MacBookPro5,5 under Snow Leopard, but it has stopped working ever since I upgraded to Lion until Mavericks. It works just fine with my friends' PC notebooks. It also doesn't work on my friend's MacBook Pro with Mountain Lion preinstalled.
I have tried suggestions/tips I have found on the web, such as: deactivate Mouse Key from System Preferences, pressing clear button, pressing F6 button, holding the Num Lock button on the device until it gets plugged, and trying with another user account whether it's a problem of corrupted preference file.
I suspect it got to do with a driver problem that no longer supporting my numeric keyboard ever since Apple abandoned Rosetta with the introduction of Lion.

 

[Kayan]

In Bootcamp/Parallels/Fusion, I have successfully used the "Clear" key by itself (no onscreen keyboard, never knew of one) to activate NumLock. Otherwise, on Mac OS X, NumLock is always on and I don't think can be disabled, as apparent by the key only displaying "Clear" (on newer keyboards/versions of OS X). Only the older keyboards have the light for it, but just because there is no light on the more recent ones does not mean it isn't working. It does.

If you are using Apple's Wireless Aluminum keyboard, there is no numpad and therefor no need for a numlock key.

Proof: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1216

I can also confirm that pressing "Clear" when running Bootcamp/Windows 8.1 will activate the keypad number keys similar to NumLock function for anyone else out there with the same problem.

 

[xieth101]

Read Support Pages...

This link was offered by another user, but did not mention a very important detail in it ...

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1216

You need to make sure you download the drivers for Windows to be able to convert the keys from what it would be for Mac to Windows. None of the suggestions in here worked for me, and I ended up just plugging in a Windows keyboard to turn it back on lol. I came across this afterwards though, installed drivers, and can now turn numlock on/off at will.

 

[jeeckert]

Well thats strange....my keypad has never worked from day 1 then...I've never had much use for it so I haven't complained....its strange because my =/*-+ and volume/eject keys all work....its just the numbers that dont work...if I happen to hit "0" on the keypad my comp freezes for a bit....I don't know what is going on

[doublepost=1456777116][/doublepost]Go to the System Preferences Menu, select accessibility, mouse & trackpad, deselect --enable mouse keys. This will fix the problem.