[ale] Serial -> PS2
Chris Fowler
ChrisF at computone.com
Fri Feb 9 10:40:44 EST 2001
Are you saying those generic serial -> PS/2 converters that comes with PS/2 mice are basically worthless? The same on PS/2 -> Serial?
Chris
-----Original Message-----
From: Stuffed Crust [mailto:pizza at shaftnet.org]
To: ale at ale.org
Sent: Friday, February 09, 2001 10:33 AM
To: Chris Fowler
Cc: ale at ale.org
Subject: Re: [ale] Serial -> PS2
On Fri, Feb 09, 2001 at 09:46:32AM -0500, Chris Fowler wrote:
> I'm trying to attach an older Linux machine to an OmniVew SE 4 port PS/2
> KVM. The Linux machine is serial so I've attached a serial -> PS/2
> connector. Mouse does not work. It has been my experience in the past that
> these do not always work. Can onyone explain why?
That's because the serial protocol is different from the ps/2 protocol.
The fancier Belkin switches can translate between the two protocols.
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