I'm lucky enough to have two main computers at my home/office and I like to run Puppy on both of them for personal web browsing and email.
One computer is outside in a dark, cold room, and with winter coming on here in the Australian Alps I'm happy to abandon it and shift inside.
Today I moved my Logitech remote mouse and keyboard inside. To my pleasant surprise, Mepis picked up the new hardware on plugin, without a reboot. Windows hung for a couple of minutes before starting.
Puppy recognised this hardware on the previous computer, but not on the "inside" one. Puppy boots here without the mouse or keyboard working.
What do I need to do to get this hardware recognised?
Hopefully it doesn't involve shifting the puppy files because most of my bookmarks and programs are on this computer.
Logitech keyboard/mouse
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In switching between mice and keyboards on your inside computer, are you also switching connection types? Meaning, is one of your mouse/keyboard combinations USB and the other PS/2? If puppy is expecting one and you plug in the other, you will find your hardware suddenly not working. Also, have you switched versions of puppy recently? Were you running 1.0.1 on the outside computer and 1.0.2 on the inside (or something like that)?
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- Ultra Super-stud
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One becomes an Ultra SuperStud by coming up with solutions like THAT! Actually, the process is dramatized here and continued here. As the Great Murga said, "If it was easy, it wouldn't be worth it." I keep expecting to be downgraded, though, as I've been finding it difficult lately to find forum posts which are within my realm of expertise...
Anyway, glad to see your keyboard and mouse now work!
ND
Anyway, glad to see your keyboard and mouse now work!
ND