David Gillett <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>On 28 Jan 99, at 0:08, Chris Blom wrote:
>
>> Hi experts,
>
>> I have a digital camera that needs a 9-pin serial port connection to
>> the computer.  My desktop has its mouse connected to the only 9-pin
>> serial port it owns.  I tried connecting to the 24-pin serial port
>> via an adaptor, but that did not work -- the system did not seem to
>> recognize its existence.
>>
>> (I use COM1 for the mouse and COM4 for my modem.)
>

Hi,
   Just a quick question.  Have you tried hooking your mouse to the 25pin
serial connector (of course you will need to make sure that COM2 and COM4
are on different IRQ's).  That would leave the 9pin free.

HTH,
Donald Gaither

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