[K12OSN] Getting Optical-wheel mouse to work on com1?

[Guy Lessard]

The technicien gave me a short moulded plastic DB-9 to PS2 adapter but 
no guaranty that they were from the same company as the mouse.  I tried 
with the adapter:  a taiwan-special (no-name) ps2  optical wheel mouse, 
a true Microsoft Intellimouse (ps2), and a generic two button ps2 mouse, 
of course none worked.
As for the com port on the computers, it is being used by old Microsoft 
serial mouse with success but they are so worn they behave  erratically.
I will ask the technician to grab me a variaty of db9-ps2 adapters.
Thanks.



Petre Scheie wrote:

> What kind of adapter are you using to connect the mouse to the serial 
> port?  A few years ago I found that 1) the PS2-to-DB9 adapter that 
> comes with the mouse is usually proprietary to that mouse--in other 
> words, the adapter from a Logitech mouse won't work with the adapter 
> from a Microsoft mouse; 2) on old machines, the cable from the 
> on-board serial connector to the DB9 port on the back of the machine 
> could come in at least two different configurations, and they weren't 
> interchangeable.   Some cables had the connectors wired this way:
>
> 1 2
> 3 4
> 5 6
> 7 8
> 9 10
>
> and others were
> 1 6
> 2 7
> 3 8
> 4 9
> 5 10
>
> None of which helps you.  Have you verified that the using the mouse 
> via the serial port works on a regular (fat) machine?
>
> Petre
>
> Guy Lessard wrote:
>
>> Has anyone gotten a optical wheel mouse (ps2 or usb) to work on the 
>> serial port (thats all i got on P75)?
>> I tried using Microsoft and IMPS2 protocols and keeping the port on 
>> ttyS0 but no response.
>>
>>
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