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Date:      Sat, 14 Jul 2012 07:52:05 +0700
From:      Erich Dollansky <erichfreebsdlist@ovitrap.com>
To:        Bernhard Schmidt <bschmidt@techwires.net>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Erratic USB mouse behaviour when wireless is down and USB hard disk connected
Message-ID:  <201207140752.05898.erichfreebsdlist@ovitrap.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAAgh0_Yxrzs9dwxQ3NNRud%2B3hxO1D25p=-qDT%2BXLE1k9KQbuoA@mail.gmail.com>
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Hi,

On Friday, July 13, 2012 09:10:16 PM Bernhard Schmidt wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 2:04 PM, Erich Dollansky
> 
> <erichfreebsdlist@ovitrap.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I know that this is not a very helpful information.
> > 
> > I have an Lenovo X220 running 10 from some 2 weeks ago. I just noticed
> > that the USB mouse (a wireless Logitech Trackman) becomes unusable when
> > the wireless (iwn) is not able to connect to the access point and a USB
> > hard disk is plugged in. Even when no data are transferred the USB mouse
> > is unusable.
> 
> Which frequency is the mouse working on? something in the 2.4GHz region?
> 
> I remember having lots of fun at $office with the mouse of colleague.
> It used channel 6 and the amount of traffic generating over wireless
> LAN had direct influence on the accuracy of his mouse activity ;)
> 
> Anyways, if you have the chance to switch to another channel, give it a
> shot.

I have to check on this. As the channels of the network here are fixed, this 
only can happen when the network is down. As I said, I can test it next week.

Erich



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