3 Jul
2005
3 Jul
'05
5:57 p.m.
It was thus said that the Great chris once stated:
The unit only supports PS/2 devices, however I am successfully using it
with PS/2 -> AT keyboard adaptors on a few machines. I have no idea if
using an auto sensing PS/2/Serial mouse and adaptors at the computer
would work thru it or not (I've not tried to do that).
If I need another 8, I'd probably buy another one of them without
question (it is also daisy chainable, so if I need another 8, I can tie
them together and still use just one Key/Mouse/CRT for all 16 devices).
Alas, I don't recall the brand name, but if you can't turn it up on ebay
just by looking at descriptions, let me know and I'll check the name on
Tuesday when I am back in the office.
Sounds similar to the Belkin Omniview (which I use---it was given to me by
someone that no longer needed it). I too am using a PS/2->AT adaptor for a
few of the units with no problem, but the PS/2->serial mouse adaptors won't
work through it---I've tried. Well rather, what didn't work was:
PS/2 mouse -> KVM -> PS/2 cable -> serial adaptor -> computer
The unit I have also supports serial ports, so I suppose the following
*may* work:
PS/2 mouse -> serial adaptor -> KVM -> serial cable -> computer
but I haven't tried that.
-spc (You can daisy-chain up to 8 Belkin units ... )