From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 1 12:58:12 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from post-11.mail.nl.demon.net (post-11.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09D9237B41A for ; Fri, 1 Mar 2002 12:58:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from [212.238.194.207] (helo=mailhost.raggedclown.net) by post-11.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16gu6R-0005Pc-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 01 Mar 2002 20:58:08 +0000 Received: from angel.raggedclown.net (angel.raggedclown.intra [192.168.1.7]) by mailhost.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Mail Gateway [buffy]) with ESMTP id CA48113040 for ; Fri, 1 Mar 2002 21:58:06 +0100 (CET) Received: by angel.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Host [angel], from userid 1005) id 253FA225C1; Fri, 1 Mar 2002 21:58:02 +0100 (CET) Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2002 21:58:02 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Logitech wheel mouse & usb -> [ ps/2 -> ] serial conversion Message-ID: <20020301205802.GA44492@raggedclown.net> References: <20020301204940.GC1757@hades.hell.gr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020301204940.GC1757@hades.hell.gr> 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 On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 10:49:40PM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > 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? > Mmm, I don't think so...I tried the very same thing myself not so long ago (it was on an old windows m/c though), and the result was the opposite of postive. -- Regards Cliff Sarginson -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message