Chris Faulkner <cfaulkne...@gmail.com> posted 77e2f44f0908031610p25e2d84et4be580037c33d...@mail.gmail.com, excerpted below, on Mon, 03 Aug 2009 18:10:04 -0500:
> Then again it could be something like what I was experiencing. I have a > MS Mouse and it would not work in FreeBSD. I inquired about it on a > mailing list and they said that there wasn't any driver support for that > particular MS mouse. It could be a simple matter of no driver support > in the OS. Try a Logitech keyboard or some other keyboard. FWIW I had an MS mouse/keyboard, wireless, at one point, but while they worked, the wireless reliability was terrible. I have a strong suspicion that the MS drivers had Tx power adjustment, either as a config option, or automatic, and that it was defaulting to the lowest setting on Linux, which didn't have that feature as it was using the generic driver settings. But Logitech has always been extremely solid for me, and this is my second $100 wireless keyboard from them (the first unfortunately got dripped on when my old A/C unit dripped on it, and the membrane keyboard traces dissolved). But he did say somewhere in the thread that it worked on another Linux distribution, so it couldn't be that Linux doesn't have the proper driver. Just the LiveCD didn't. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman
