On 8 Dec 2000, at 22:55, Samuel W. Heywood wrote:
> Hello Folks:
>
> You all might easily suppose that by simply unloading a mouse driver you
> would thereby free up your serial port to use it for attaching an
> alternative device after disconnecting the mouse. So it would seem.
One would expect that, yes.
> This afternoon when I attempted to transfer files from my computer to
> another by use of a null-modem cable connected between a free serial port
> in the other computer and the serial port of where a mouse had been in
> my computer, I was unable to establish a connection between the two
> computers, no matter how I tried to configure my serial communications
> software. I was certain that I had unloaded the mouse driver. Just to
> make sure, I re-connected the mouse, re-booted my computer and unloaded
> the mouse driver again.
Did you try rebooting without reconnecting the mouse? What kind
of mouse was it (ie Mouse-systems, microsoft, or other?) When
the mouse driver probes for mice, a Microsoft compatible one will
respond with "M" but a mousesystems one will not, so it has to be
forced.
> Then I
> transferred about 84 megabytes flawlessly and without any problems.
Wow, that would have taken well over two hours at the highest
RS232 speed of 115200bps.
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