Did anyone get a ps/2 mouse to work on a C-series workstation that has
a USB interface for the mouse? The ps/2 keyboard works fine but the mouse
is another matter.

--
Jim Hollenback
jholly@cup.hp.com
my opinion.

jho...@cup.hp.com (Jim Hollenback) wrote:

> Did anyone get a ps/2 mouse to work on a C-series
> workstation that has a USB interface for the mouse?
> The ps/2 keyboard works fine but the mouse
> is another matter.

How are you converting PS/2 (device) to USB (host)?

According to:
<http://www.hp.com/workstations/irg/risc/options.html>
the supported solution for PS/2 devices is still the hp A7782A.

I wasn't able to quickly determine if the A7782A is still
on CPL. If not, I can suggest some roughly equivalent retail
SKUs from the OEM supplier of that product:
<http://www.ymouse.com/ymouse/whymsp.php>.

If you are using the A7782A, chances are there's someone
still at hp (i.e. not me) who might be interested in
a potential software defect, or a patch for an odd mouse.
Or you might just need the PDF manual for a corner case.

Send me an email. Assemble address from parts below.
I can't send you one because Google trashes addresses.

--
Regards, Bob Niland mailto:name@ispname.tld
http://www.access-one.com/rjn email4rjn AT yahoo DOT com
NOT speaking for any employer, client or Internet Service Provider.

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rjn <email4rjn@yahoo.com> wrote:
> jho...@cup.hp.com (Jim Hollenback) wrote:
[deleted]

> Send me an email. Assemble address from parts below.
> I can't send you one because Google trashes addresses.

Hi Bob,

Can Google Groups (I assume you use the new (broken) BETA interface)
show the Message-ID of an article? If so, you can do (example for Jim's
article):

http://groups.google.ca/groups?selm=Uaude.4804$PA6.658@news.cpqcorp.net

Note "google.ca", NOT "google.com". The 'local' Google sites, like
".ca" et al, still use the old Google Groups interface, which *do* [1]
show the poster's e-mail address. (For some strange reason, I could not
lookup the article with the BETA interface ("Not Found"), so I couldn't
see what you see.)

[1] It's rather insulting that Google Groups, which is one of the
biggest sources of *Usenet* spam, shields poster's e-mail addresses. So
Usenet spam is apparently fine by Google, but e-mail spam isn't?