Mouse Driver

Hello,

I am trying to use a Belkin KVM Switch to switch between two identical IBM machines. All works well except the mouse. My mouse is IBM USB Optical. The KVM only uses PS/2 so i have one of those PS/2 to USB adapter things hooked up to where the mouse "signal" would leave the switch. Belkins support says that the mouse should work, but I may have to install a "Basic Microsoft Mouse Driver". Any ideas where to find this? I searched on microsoft.com with no success.

Thanks.

Basic Microsoft Mouse Driver　<--(^^;?(Isn't it standard driver? For what OS, for what mouse(PS/2 ?) from the first.)

If it is basic, any Windows should have it as its standard. It's Windows pride.

opps, yeah i meant to say "basic"

Its Windows 2000 Pro and I am using an IBM USB Optical Mouse.

Have you tried it already or are you being cautious? I've never had trouble with a mouse (usb or PS/2) being immediately detected and usable when you plug it in and start up. The drivers have only been needed to add support for additional buttons and features. Give it a shot.

Yeah, i have tried several times.

Actually when i first tried Windows would not boot because no pointing device could be found. When snooping around in the bios i realized that ps/2mouse was disabled. I enabled that and Windows now boots, but i can't see the mouse. The red light comes on and stays solid so the mouse has power. When i go into control panel it shows nothing listed in the mouse hardware tab of the mouse area.

When i plug the mouse into the USB port the hardware shows up with all kind of options and settings. It seems as if the driver is too advanced for PS/2

(^^;?(My thought is as follows: )

When Belkins support says that the mouse should work, but I may have to install a "Basic Microsoft Mouse Driver".

If you use PS2/USB adapter, it should not be recognized as USB mouse, but would be as PS2. So that Belkins's saying, "You may have to install a "Basic Microsoft Mouse Driver" in other word, or means that you are supposed to use it as PS2 mouse, then it probably needs standard PS2 mouse driver. It seems to me that it is extremely simple as support explanation, or even irresponsible.

So much so that, I suppose that they didin't test such an use but guessed that it probably works, because it should be recognized as ordinary PS2 mouse.

By the way, it is said USB and IEEE are not IBM PC standard, that is why so many trouble with them instead of their convenience. That CPU switch may not be compatible with such an use.

Now if you have trouble with USB/PS2 adapter, you'd better use ordinary PS2, because you have no merit in doing so without USB convenience. USB is not valuable until it was used as USB.

Why the hell must you use PS2 port disabling USB plug & play feature?