This is just a guess, but since Linux doesn't use the terminology "Com 1"
and "Com 2", I wonder if your paraphrase of what you did in configuring your
mouse conceals an error. In Linux. COM1 = /dev/ttyS0, and COM2 = /dev/ttyS1
. If you are trying to find a mouse on /dev/ttyS2, you won't since that
device entry doesn't correspond to a physical device on your system (as you
describe it).
Aside from that, since you say you have a 486, I assume Win95 wasn't doing
any Plug & Play configuring of ports, modems, whatever. If I'm wrong in this
assumption, that could be the cause of your problem.
At 09:45 PM 3/28/99 EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>During install, Linux is unable to find the mouse. When I had Win95 on it, of
>which I wiped the entire disk to get a clean install of Red Hat, the mouse was
>on Com 2. During the install, it faile to probe my mouse which is a standard
>generic 3 button mouse. I set it to DOS Com 2 in both mouseconfig AND
>XF86Setup. In mouseconfig, I chose generic 3 button serial mouse on com 2 and
>com 1. In XF86Setup, I chose Microsoft mouse and com 1 and 2 and it still
>locks up in X Windows and only option I have is Reset the system.
>I am running Red Hat V5.2 on a old DOS Box that is a 486 100mhz 32mb ram on a
>1.6gig hd.
>I reinstalled it again and same thing, "UNABLE TO PROBE MOUSE". The mouse did
>work without a problem in Win95 and I do see during boot that it loads the 2
>ports as well. Any suggestions? Anyone help?
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