On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 04:27, Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> wrote:
It's possible. The usb-serial adapters I was using were certainly well tested using other software and connecting to other devices, but it's still possible that some particular software connecting to some particular device could still fail on it even if everything else works.
None of these converter failures are any surprise to me. I've tried 4 different kinds of USB to PS/2 converters. None were capable of getting me into the PC BIOS. Some were unable to provide access to Grub menu choices. All worked once Linux or WinXP were fully booted.
USB to serial converters I've never tried, as I always have few puters that lack serial ports, lots with them, and PCI cards to add them to machines that lack them.
I've got an ancient wireless IR keyboard. The receiver has a PS/2 connector for the keyboard and a serial connector for the mouse - that's how old it is. I bought a PS/2 to USB converter cable off eBay, and then connected an old serial to PS/2 converter to the PS/2 cable for the mouse and plugged it all in to my computer (used as a media centre)... this mess of converters and cables works very well at the BIOS level and in openSUSE (never failed once), and fails intermittently/randomly in Windows :-) C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org