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I have an old wireless ball mouse with a sync button, can i make it work? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by Artemis_Mystique@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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I have an old microsoft wireless ball mouse, i have the dongle but it has ps/2 connectors (i know about ps/2 to usb but i dont want to use it as the dongle is big). Is there way to use a usb wifi card(tp-link) as the reciever and make it work?

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[–] ZILtoid1991@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That only works sometimes. Many receivers are only PS/2 compatible, especially older ones.

[–] beeng@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago

They mention it works with the dongle but they main thing is that it's too big.