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<H2><A NAME="s3">3. Serial Ports </A></H2>
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<P>The first thing to do is to make sure the software can find the mouse.
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Work out which serial port your mouse is connected to - usually this
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will be <CODE>/dev/ttyS0</CODE> (COM1 under DOS) or <CODE>/dev/ttyS1</CODE>
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(COM2). (<CODE>ttyS0</CODE> is usually the 9 pin socket, <CODE>ttyS1</CODE> the
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25 pin socket, but of course there is no hard and fast rule about these
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things.) There are also an equivalent number of <CODE>/dev/cua</CODE> devices,
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which are almost the same as the <CODE>ttyS</CODE> ones, but their use is
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now discouraged. For convenience make a
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new link <CODE>/dev/mouse</CODE> pointing at this port. For instance,
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for <CODE>ttyS0</CODE>:
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ln -s /dev/ttyS0 /dev/mouse
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