Serial Mouse not detected

[JohnBN]

I want to get a serial mouse (PS/2 with adapter) to work on a Dell C400 (so I can use the one USB port for wireless).
I enabled the serial port in the BIOS, but the mouse didn't work.

Help!

[Perkins]

The program you need is called input attach. You can get it via:

sudo apt-get install inputattachThen you test it with:


inputattach -<mouse type> /path/to/serial/deviceA full list of mouse types may be found with:

man inputattachIt may take a little guesswork. For example: my Kraft trackball uses the mouse systems protocol.

Serial devices are, with few exceptions, located under /dev/ttyS*.

Your port is probably
/dev/ttyS0 as it's the only one.

Once you get it working, you can make it run on startup by adding it to /etc/rc.local with an & at the end of the line.