I'm just wonderinf if there's a limit to the number of adaptors that you can throw on a peripheral. I've currently got a usb optical wheel mouse sitting around that someone I know wants to use on a motherboard that only gives you serial mouse support. The thing currently has a usb->ps2 converter on it and then a ps2->serial converter attached to that. I can verify that the mouse works, as well as does the usb->ps2 adaptor... but the mouse fails to work when attached to the serial port with the second adaptor.
I know somewhere around I've got a second ps2->serial adaptor that I can verify works.. but I can't find it for the life of me. So... I guess I've really got two questions... 1. Is there a limit to the number of adaptors that you can shove on a peripheral? ...and... 2. Would an optical mouse get enough electro-juice via the serial port to enable it to work... or are the ps2 and usb ports capable of powering more demanding devices? David Aikema _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
