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traig:
I recently finished wiring up my panel to a minipac encoder. I plugged the Happ trackball into the PS/2 mouse port and a standard keyboard into the proper PS/2 port, and then plugged the minipac, using the provided PS/2-to-USB cable, into a USB port on the PC running XP Pro.

Unfortunately, I was then told the USB device was not recognized. This happened no matter which port I used. I made sure the jumpers on the minipac were set to ROM and USB. No dice. I even tried every other combination of jumper settings, just in case, but nothing would get it working. There was no feedback to the system at all and all I got from XP was that it was an unknown device.

I even tried plugging it into a free port on my Win XP laptop and got the same problem. I'm at my wits end... any ideas on what the issue might be and how to correct it??

microwrx:
Don't know myself but why are you using USB if you have the trackball in the PS/2 mouse port anyway?  Try it in PS/2 and see if it works at all then worry about USB.

patrickl:
Does your i-PAC have a USB/PS2 jumper (the newer ones don't)?

traig:

I'm using the USB because there's a spinner attached to the minipac. I read you have to use the USB connection if you're going with a spinner.

It's a minipac, not an i-pac. There are two jumpers, one USB/PS2 and the other is ALT/ROM.

It's a fresh XP Pro installation.

traig:

I just fired off an e-mail to Andy about it as well. I assume that the minipac is supposed to show up in XP as a keyboard or something...

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