XP Cannot see serial mouse in COM port

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Hello All,
I am trying to connect a Serial mouse (It is actually a ps2
mouse with a 9 pin ps2->serial converter) to my home PC via the Serial
COM port, I do have a ps2 port on the pc but I need to test using the
serial COM (dont ask), that is the background. Anyway after connecting
the serial mouse to my XP driven pc and I reboot I presumed that XP
would listen for activity on the COM port and try to install a
pointing device driver to that port but nothing is detected. Do I need
to do anything to make this happen ??

cheers, Mark ..

 

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Markzzzz said in news:f5270d95.0405270014.2d9645ea@posting.google.com:
> Hello All,
> I am trying to connect a Serial mouse (It is actually a ps2
> mouse with a 9 pin ps2->serial converter) to my home PC via the Serial
> COM port, I do have a ps2 port on the pc but I need to test using the
> serial COM (dont ask), that is the background. Anyway after connecting
> the serial mouse to my XP driven pc and I reboot I presumed that XP
> would listen for activity on the COM port and try to install a
> pointing device driver to that port but nothing is detected. Do I need
> to do anything to make this happen ??
>
> cheers, Mark ..

Go to the mouse maker's web site and install the mouse driver (that
supports its use on a serial port).

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But surely XP has to detect the mouse (or any device) on the COM port
first, then try to install a driver, I do not think in my circumstance
the device is actually being detected ...