[TriLUG] wireless mice - avoiding mutual interference?

[Craig Taylor]

On the wireless mice that I've actually looked at for this type of thing -
they usually allow you to 'associate' the mouse with the receiver via a
small pin-button on each that needs to be depressed at the same time.

I assume, from my lack of routinely having to use them, that it'll default
to whatever it finds but this may come in handy if you're worried about
interference.

- Craig Taylor

On Dec 27, 2007 9:24 AM, Jason Watts <jsnonzzr at gmail.com> wrote:

>  I'm not sure about the mouse you bought... The one I have is a logi tech.
> I have never seen it not work with Linux.  The OS both windows and Linux
> as
> best I can tell treats it like a standard ps2 mouse.
>
> My new one I haven't tried on nix but it is treated as a standard usb
> mouse/keyboard.
>
> I think based on observation but no research,  that the receiver
> interpreters the signals from the mouse and converts it to the standard
> input the PC would expect to see making the PC oblivious to the wireless
> factor.
>
> As far as the codes you were talking about, my mouse has a couple chanel's
> that it works on... If they are both talking on the same chanel, you can
> actually give conflicting inputs to the same receiver (you will just have
> two separate mouses controlling the same pointer).  not sure about the
> blue
> tooth mouses.
>
> Hope this helps
>
> enjoy
>
> Disclaimer:   all my knowledge on this subject is based on observations
> and
> logical conclusions.  I have never done any research.
>
>
>
> On Dec 26, 2007 7:13 PM, Joseph Mack NA3T <jmack at wm7d.net> wrote:
>
> > I bought my son a 27MHz wireless USB mouse for xmas and was
> > surprised to find that it worked out of the box on linux,
> > since not much works out of the box on Linux.  According to
> > the spec, the mouse has a range of 5'. If you have multiple
> > wireless mice working in proximity, do they interfer with
> > each other, or are they like garage door openers, which have
> > codes? The device has no way of setting a code that I could
> > find (in the docs, on the device, or on the manufacturer's
> > website).
> >
> > Thanks Joe
> >
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