re mouse on com under windows in a previous article jpaparel cs ulowell edu joseph paparella says i ve pursued and researched this question over the last month or so because i have the same requirements you do and the long and short of it is that the windows mouse drivers don t accept mice at any but com and com using irq or irq unless you buy special drivers from someone who has them i ve talked to mouse systems who say their driver doesn t support other than com and com as above but who claim to be releasing one that will soon the other alternative seems to be possible but in one case prohibitively expensive i e port card for and in the other the author s of powerbbs for windows claim to have a port serial card with buffered uarts and drivers for windows to match i e com irq for the second paragraph is hearsay because i haven t checked it out yet but intend to as soon as i can free up g hope this will save you some steps i had this problem when i first loaded windows my i o card is for hd s fd s parrelel serial for mouse and for my external modem and a game port problem enters the darn serial ports have no selection for com settings they are stuck on and good card for hd s and fd s but lousy for serial i called microsoft and other places the long and short of it is windows wants com and only for mouse selection i went out and bought a small i o card just for parrelel and serial now i have all active com ports and lpt and lpt this half card was less than mouse on com external modem on com i disabled the lpt so i could use the interupt for my scanner card irq c ya artin this communication is sent by artin university of arizona tucson ak cleveland freenet edu mlinsenb ccit arizona edu mlinsenb arizvms death has been dead for about years follow the king of kings
