Re: Erratic USB mouse behaviour when wireless is down and USB hard disk connected

From: Erich Dollansky <erichfreebsdlist_at_ovitrap.com>
Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2012 07:52:05 +0700
Hi,

On Friday, July 13, 2012 09:10:16 PM Bernhard Schmidt wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 2:04 PM, Erich Dollansky
> 
> <erichfreebsdlist_at_ovitrap.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I know that this is not a very helpful information.
> > 
> > I have an Lenovo X220 running 10 from some 2 weeks ago. I just noticed
> > that the USB mouse (a wireless Logitech Trackman) becomes unusable when
> > the wireless (iwn) is not able to connect to the access point and a USB
> > hard disk is plugged in. Even when no data are transferred the USB mouse
> > is unusable.
> 
> Which frequency is the mouse working on? something in the 2.4GHz region?
> 
> I remember having lots of fun at $office with the mouse of colleague.
> It used channel 6 and the amount of traffic generating over wireless
> LAN had direct influence on the accuracy of his mouse activity ;)
> 
> Anyways, if you have the chance to switch to another channel, give it a
> shot.

I have to check on this. As the channels of the network here are fixed, this 
only can happen when the network is down. As I said, I can test it next week.

Erich
Received on Fri Jul 13 2012 - 22:52:10 UTC

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