re: Wireless USB mice which work on 98se?
Monday, April 6, 2009 at 7:37 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Louis
(37 messages posted)
Thanks for the reply. The "reasons" I had in mind were the driver. I should have
been more exact and called the "software" in view the "driver". The newer drivers
will have the newest OS's in mind, that is where I figured the software will either
not load or simply would not work. "Might" the old USB support on Win98se allow me
to use a newer wireless USB mouse, just not with every function enabled is the question?
I've learned the Win95 user ignores the lack of support on hardware or software and
simply tries anyway. I have plenty of software and hardware that did not list Win95
as supported but it all works on my Win95 PC. But the question still remains, is
anyone successfully using a wireless USB mouse (a newer or older one) on their Win98
PC? And what drivers did you need to load, Win98se generic or something like the
IntelliPoint 5.30.606.0 driver?
On Monday, April 6, 2009 at 4:44 pm, gewg_ wrote:
>Louis wrote:
>|[...]The newer mice are USB 2
>|
>All implementations of USB2 *should* be backwards-compatible With USB1.
>
>|and most seem to say that they will only work on 2K-Vista.
>|
>aka "The NT Kernel".
>Just because all the variants of M$'s OS have "Windows" in their names
>does NOT mean they are similar under the hood.
>There are several M$ OS kernels--and those are NOT compatible on many levels.
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>|I assume it's due to the software they use
>|
>Yes, but not for the reasons you think.
>
>The software you are referring to is called a "device driver".
>**What is a device driver?**
>http://www.karlsforums.com/faq/faq_devicedriver.htm
>
>A device driver has to be written for a specific OS kernel.
>...and even some software ostensibly written for an NT-kernel OS (e.g. Win2000/XP)
>won't work with another NT-kernel OS (e.g. Vista--which happens a lot).
>
>|to control the extra buttons or the side to side scroll or zoom capabilities
>|- which I do not need.
>|
>*That* is NOT the limiting factor. You extrapolated beyond your knowledge base.
>See "NT Kernel" (above).
>
>When buying hardware to work with a 10-year-old M$ OS,
>look for **your** OS in the Supported OSes list on the packaging / spec sheet.
>Many (inferior/lazy) manufacturers don't bother to suppport Win9x (nor Linux).
>JUST AVOID THOSE VENDORS.
>Only AFTER you see he supports *you* (and your OS of choice)
>do you hand over your money to a vendor.
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