From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jul 6 13:18:11 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C215837B400 for ; Sat, 6 Jul 2002 13:18:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ralf.artlogix.com (sense-mcglk-240.oz.net [216.39.168.240]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 670D843E09 for ; Sat, 6 Jul 2002 13:18:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mcglk@artlogix.com) Received: from ralf.artlogix.com.artlogix.com (ralf.artlogix.com [192.168.0.4]) by ralf.artlogix.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8E971A6C6; Sat, 6 Jul 2002 13:19:00 -0700 (PDT) To: Warren Block Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Stupid Mouse Question References: From: Ken McGlothlen Date: 06 Jul 2002 13:18:02 -0700 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <86it3s391h.fsf@ralf.artlogix.com> Lines: 28 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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 Warren Block writes: | It seemed like a simple way to avoid fan noise would be to set up my new | 4.6 system in the basement, and use long video, keyboard, and mouse | cables. The distance is only about 25 feet, and the www.nti1.com video | cable works great. So does the keyboard. | | But the mouse... [...] Next thing to try is to remove the PS/2 adapter on | an Intellimouse and try a USB extension cable, but passive USB is only | supposed to go 5 meters. So it may require active. Actually, an active cable won't work, either, I'm sorry to say. The problem is that that 4.5 meter limit only applies to high-speed devices; low-speed devices are limited to three meters. With an active cable, I'd get intermittent mouse support under FreeBSD, and my Mac OS X system would actually panic after a while. There is a solution: Chain some powered hubs with some 3m cables. For a 25-foot span, you could probably get away with two hubs: Computer]----3m cable----[HUB]----3m cable----[HUB]----[mouse |------------------|--------------------|------| 10' 10' 5' This solution works very well for me---no more system panics, and rock-solid mouse support. Best of luck. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message