From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 18 10:16:39 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id KAA10890 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 18 Mar 1996 10:16:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA10859 for ; Mon, 18 Mar 1996 10:16:18 -0800 (PST) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id LAA21839; Mon, 18 Mar 1996 11:08:32 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199603181808.LAA21839@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: Installation of FreeBSD 2.1 To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu Date: Mon, 18 Mar 1996 11:08:32 -0700 (MST) Cc: ssriva1@umbc.edu, questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Doug White" at Mar 17, 96 09:46:50 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > Another question I have is about the mouse. I have a Logitech two button > > mouse with a round circular plug that connects to the back of the > > computer. Is this a bus mouse or a PS/2 mouse? > > Well, it's both :-) Those are synonyms. A PS/2 mouse sits on the second channel of the keyboard controller. A bus mouse sits on a card, generally on IRQ 12. The connectors look the same. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.