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Junkie
Location: My head.
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Wireless Mouse Emulator?
Hi Y'all,
I recently bought a Kensington Ci65m wireless mouse and it comes with a receiver. You know, the one that plugs into a USB port. Now, lazy ass me does not want the extra daunting task of plugging in that receiver. I want a program that will manage this without the receiver. One that will utilize the existing wireless modem already installed on the computer and connect to the wireless mouse that way. Here's what I figure, the receiver is an antenna, right? Computer already has an antenna. The receiver has a unique key pre-coded in it during manufacturing that it utilizes to communicate with the mouse, wirelessly. Brings me back to my first point, the computer can already do that, it has an antenna. What I want is to copy the information in the receiver to the computer and have the computer communicate with the mouse directly. It is a challenge, yes, but once again my researching skills that have brought me untold pornography failed to provide me with this information. Probably even far more feasible to invest the effort in getting a bluetooth mouse or this other one by the same company, but no, I accept the challenge ... help me ... |
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Forming
Location: ....a state of pure inebriation.
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I'm not very tech-savvy, but I don't believe a computer has the same type of receiver built in already. I believe that a wireless mouse uses a different kind of wave to communicate with its receiver than a wireless modem receives.
I very well could be completely off base here, but I think that's how it works. Just get a blue-tooth mouse, man... =p
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Young Crumudgeon
Location: Canada
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It's not a different type of wave, as they'll both use RF. It is different frequencies, different modulation, different bus...
No. Just no. You can't do this.
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Tilted Cat Head
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Location: Manhattan, NY
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so you researched and wrote all this up all because you didn't want to just plug something in?
there's something seriously wrong with you... something very very wrong with you. I forgot what movie that was from. you'd need to know that you're working in the same frequencies and controls. More than likely you are not able to do such a thing from an already existing consumer item.
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Junkie
Location: My head.
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warrior bodhisattva
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Location: East-central Canada
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So.... why is it you didn't just get a bluetooth mouse?
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Tilted
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bash-3.1# iwconfig wlan0
wlan0 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:"FFFFFF" Mode:Managed Frequency:2.437 GHz Access Point: FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF Bit Rate=1 Mb/s Tx-Power=27 dBm Retry min limit:7 RTS thr ![]() Encryption key ![]() Power Management ![]() Link Quality=88/100 Signal level:23/100 Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0 Usage: iwlist [interface] frequency bash-3.1# iwlist wlan0 freq wlan0 11 channels in total; available frequencies : Channel 01 : 2.412 GHz Channel 02 : 2.417 GHz Channel 03 : 2.422 GHz Channel 04 : 2.427 GHz Channel 05 : 2.432 GHz Channel 06 : 2.437 GHz Channel 07 : 2.442 GHz Channel 08 : 2.447 GHz Channel 09 : 2.452 GHz Channel 10 : 2.457 GHz Channel 11 : 2.462 GHz Current Frequency=2.437 GHz (Channel 6) Quote:
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#11 (permalink) |
Young Crumudgeon
Location: Canada
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No, he didn't get it to work. I know this, because what he wants to do can't be done.
You cause me such fearsome headaches, Xerxys.
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I have eaten the slaw
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This isn't the kind of thing you do to save yourself some (minor) hassle. This is the kind of thing you do because you've got ungodly amounts of free time and want to execute an awkward workaround solely for the geek cred. Yes, it's technically possible to make this work. It's also technically possible to move a car across the country by dismantling it, carrying the pieces on your back over multiple trips, and reassembling them at your destination.
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Irresponsible
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Unless this is a bluetooth mouse and your computer has built in bluetooth, any attempts are a waste of time. A wifi card or cellular modem has a digital signal processing chip built into it that is able to only work with a few supported modulations. Anything else is impossible on that hardware.
It would be *possible* to modify the mouse to speak wifi, but it'd be questionably sane, and would require you to spend in the range of $50-$150. So, even if you modified your mouse to speak wifi, you would need to write the code to make it speak ethernet, and write a driver for your computer to turn ethernet packets into mouse movement. If you get *that* far, you still have the issue that the mouse will not be able to connect to your wifi card whilst you are using said wifi card for internet access.
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emulator, mouse, wireless |
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