KVM

Sean 'Captain Napalm' Conner spc at conman.org
Sun Jul 3 19:57:03 CDT 2005


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 ... )





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