[UK-CONTEST] UK-Contest Digest, Vol 45, Issue 2

[David Ferrington]

Sounds to me the Belkin USB receiver doesn't re-enumerate on PC on boot.
I occasionally find this with other UBS devices. sometimes on Mac, but not
as often as PC. Its probably a firmware or driver problem.

It appears the PC recognises that the device is there but may not be sending
a reinitialise sig. to the driver, or the drive is ignoring it.

You could try reinstalling the Belkin software, but other than that, I don't
know - I'll ask someone in the Window Eng team next week (I work in a big
bank and they have really close relationship with MS :-(

I'd like to know what causes this too.

I have a Logitech Wireless KB & Mouse on the Mac - works great.
Have same model mouse on PC, only once has it not been recognised, but I was
giving the PC a hard time with hibernate/unhibernate in a strange profile.

on 2/9/06 5:00 pm, "uk-contest-request at contesting.com"
<uk-contest-request at contesting.com> sent:

> Message: 2
> Date: Sat, 2 Sep 2006 12:54:18 +0100
> From: "Alex GM3ZBE" <alex at gm3zbe.plus.com>
> Subject: [UK-CONTEST] Wireless key and mouse problem on my contesting
> PC -    help!
> To: <uk-contest at contesting.com>
> Message-ID: <000a01c6ce86$861b1860$4001a8c0 at Lalathan>
> Content-Type: text/plain;    charset="us-ascii"
> 
> Hi
> 
> I have a Belkin wireless keyboard and mouse, it uses a usb connection.
> 
> I have this odd problem in that the shack PC doesn't recognise that they are
> there when it boots up.  However once it has booted, if I pull out the USB
> plug from the PC and push it back in again everything works fine.
> 
> Anyone have any suggestions as to where I should look for the problem.?  I
> don't really understand USB ports, as far as I can see you can't tell which
> address it is using like you used to be able to do with device manager for
> RS232 ports.  The same thing happens on our "house" laptop so it doesn't
> appear computer specific.  The laptop runs XP Home and the shack PC runs XP
> Professional.
> 
> Alex

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