Re: Serial Plug'n'Play?

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Wed, 1 Apr 1998 21:09:38 +0100 (BST)

> That's a terrible stuff, I'd ignore it. I've been sent the specs as
> gpm wasn't able to deal with pnp mice.

I've played with it a bit. Mostly because I was fiddling with it on
the adaptec airport to ID it - I recommend the airport as a test tool btw
you can reprogram its ID string if you follow its documentation (and yes its
done in a way thats not going to occur by accident too often)

> and nothing else. Well, it requires the devices to talk at 1200 baud,
> and plays with DTR as well -- so UPS's will shut down when probed by
> w94. Besides, the new stuff claims to be compatible with unaware mouse

Oh that is funny.. Thats risks digest material!

Alan

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