From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 1 12:49:52 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailsrv.otenet.gr (mailsrv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E64337B405 for ; Fri, 1 Mar 2002 12:49:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from hades.hell.gr (patr530-a214.otenet.gr [212.205.215.214]) by mailsrv.otenet.gr (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g21KnefA001550 for ; Fri, 1 Mar 2002 22:49:40 +0200 (EET) Received: (from charon@localhost) by hades.hell.gr (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g21Kneo01938 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 1 Mar 2002 22:49:40 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@freebsd.org) Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2002 22:49:40 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Logitech wheel mouse & usb -> [ ps/2 -> ] serial conversion Message-ID: <20020301204940.GC1757@hades.hell.gr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I've been given a new mouse as a gift today, and was trying to install it on a relatively old machine here. The mouse is one of the wheel mice of Logitech, and comes with a USB cord, and a usb -> ps/2 conversion adaptor. The machine I wanted to use this on is a Pentium machine, and only has two RS-232 serial ports. No USB or PS/2. Is it possible to use the usb to ps/2 converter that came with the mouse and one of my ps/2 to serial converters to make this work? Has anyone else done this already? I've tried starting moused while the old serial mouse was plugged in /dev/cuaa1, and it works like a charm if I do: # moused -p /dev/cuaa1 -t auto When I plug the Logitech usb mouse to he included ps/2 to usb converter, and then to a ps/2 to serial converter though, the second mouse, doesn't even seem to start working. After fiddling with various protocol types in moused, I tried a simple: # hd /dev/cuaa1 but there is apparently not a single byte of data coming from the mouse to the serial port :-( Any ideas, that could possible help? Giorgos Keramidas FreeBSD Documentation Project keramida@{freebsd.org,ceid.upatras.gr} http://www.FreeBSD.org/docproj/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message