Try bluetooth. You can get an internal card cheep if you have a spare mini pci or pci-e slot free. Those inline ps2 to usb converters were usually hardware specific and definately nonstandard. <div class="gmail_quote">On Mar 24, 2012 11:03 AM, "Chick Tower" <<a href="mailto:c.e.tower@gmail.com">c.e.tower@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> Yes, Bill, that should work. I may even have one of those connectors, but, if so, it's 500 miles away until Sunday evening. Chick On 03/24/2012 08:57 AM, Marr wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> As a "plan B", is one of those ubiquitous USB->PS/2 adapters out of the question? I seem to accumulate them -- 1 with each new trackball I buy -- but I stopped using them when Linux (or maybe it was X11?) seemed to start supporting pointing devices on USB more reliably. Bill </blockquote> _______________________________________________ linux-user mailing list <a href="mailto:linux-user@egr.msu.edu" target="_blank">linux-user@egr.msu.edu</a> <a href="http://mailman.egr.msu.edu/mailman/listinfo/linux-user" target="_blank">http://mailman.egr.msu.edu/mailman/listinfo/linux-user</a> </blockquote></div>