austin@skorpio.Usask.CA (Alvin Austin) (04/12/91)
I would like to use HP's HP-IL mouse with OS/2 Extended Edition 1.3 from IBM. What additional drivers are required, and where can I get them? Also, what lines (exactly) do you add to your CONFIG.SYS to make it recognize the little rodent? The mouse selection menu of 1.3 EE lists almost every other kind of mouse on the market except HP's! I am using an HP QS/16 (80386DX - 16 mHz) machine. Thanks for any help! ** Please email replies and I will post a summary of what works :) back to this newsgroup. Alvin Austin ___________________________________________________________________________ Alvin Austin Email: austin@skorpio.USask.Ca Department of Computational Science (Mail) Room 1C101 Engineering Building Office: Room 145.1 Arts Building University of Saskatchewan Telephone: (306) 966-4895 Saskatoon, Sask. CANADA S7N 0W0 FAX: (306) 966-8709 ___________________________________________________________________________
erics@hpindda.cup.hp.com (Dale McAtee) (04/24/91)
Alvin, For OS/2 it is usually recommended that you try and use the manufacturers version of OS/2, ie; OS/2 is more hardware dependent than DOS. Since you are using EE, I assume that you need something specific, such as connection to IBM LAN Server. In this case, you may not have any choice as to which Vendor's OS. I believe that HP has 1.2, but I doubt if 1.3 is available from anyone other than IBM... The only thing I can suggest is that you try and obtain HP's OS/2's MOUSEHP1.SYS (I think that is the name, it may have changed), and give it a try. While I think it is only available with HP's OS/2, you might be able to try and obtain it from the folks on the HP Support Forum on Compuserve (GO HP). No guarantees you can get it, or whether it will work. The other alternative would be to try calling HP's customer information center (1-800-752-0900 USA, or 1-800-387-3867 Canada) and seeing what they can do for you. Good luck, Dale (these are personal comments, suggestions, not that of HP, Bill and Dave, the commisioner of baseball, etc).