On 10/29/18 9:56 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote: > On Mon, 29 Oct 2018 19:14:10 -0700 > King Beowulf <[email protected]> dijo: > >> On 10/29/18 6:35 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote: >>> On Fri, 28 Sep 2018 10:31:47 -0700 >>> Jason Barnett <[email protected]> dijo: >>> ..snip... > > Second, the M185 receiver does not have an orange square pattern on its > transceiver. > > Third, I looked for ltunify, but the link above took me to a page with > instructions for installing from source, and glancing through them I > concluded that it was doubtful that it could be done, at least not > easily. But that led me to fire up Synaptic and search on 'Logitech,' > which turned up a couple of possibilities: logitech-applet and solaar. > The former can only change the resolution from the default 400cpi to > 800cpi. But Solaar is for pairing and unpairing.
I had forgotten about Solaar. yes, it'll be easier to use than ltunify. > > So then I installed Solaar on the desktop, and got the same results. > But I have a couple other wireless USB mice around here, so I grabbed > one - an M325, whose transceiver has the orange rectangle - plugged it > in, and there it was in the Solaar display. And, while it appears in > the Solaar display on the desktop, it does not appear in the Solaar > display on the desktop. > > On the desktop I could use Solaar to unpair the mouse, but that would > surely deactivate it, so that is not a good idea. A better idea would > be to buy a replacement for the M185 still in use on the laptop, one > whose transceiver has the orange rectangle. > > Thanks for pointing me in the direction to a solution. :) All you need to do is replace EITHER the laptop mouse OR the desktop mouse with the unifying receiver version controllable with Solaar over the USB port (Solar won't reach out to any receiver elsewhere). The nano receiver and unifying receiver speak different dialects so can't understand each other and therefore shouldn't interfere even though they are on the same 2.4GHz band. At least I've not have issues, YMMV. Or is you wan a nice new mouse, go ahead and nab one one. There is one caveat to the unifying receiver: make sure you get a newish version with the patched firmware (mouse jacking exploit), or you can flash it yourself. The attacker has to be fairly close (not quite in your lap...) but its better to be safe when in public areas. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logitech_Unifying_receiver -Ed
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