Bug 140093

Summary: D-Link DFL 200 Router Firewall (with RS232 serial connecting) recognized as serial mouse.
Product: [openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0 Reporter: Armin Mohring <arminmohring>
Component: YaST2Assignee: Steffen Winterfeldt <snwint>
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX QA Contact: Klaus Kämpf <kkaempf>
Severity: Minor    
Priority: P5 - None    
Version: Final   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: x86-64   
OS: Other   
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Found By: System Test Services Priority:
Business Priority: Blocker: ---
Marketing QA Status: --- IT Deployment: ---
Attachments: hwinfo --mouse --log=hw.log
hwinfo --mouse --log=hw.log

Description Armin Mohring 2005-12-18 11:29:30 UTC 
Harware: D-Link DFL 200 Router Firewall. Connections: Ethernet (100Mbit/s and a serial connection for system update). The DFL 200 is recognized as serial mouse.
Comment 1 Michael Gross 2005-12-19 15:50:50 UTC 
That's probably because this device behaves like a mouse. The solution would be not to attach it during hardware scans, as this port is probably not used very often. I'm not sure what we could do about this. But maby we have such a device somewhere?

Steffen: Can you help us here? If not please assign it back to the screening team.
Comment 2 Steffen Winterfeldt 2005-12-19 15:53:13 UTC 
Please attach the log of 'hwinfo --mouse --log=xxx'.
Comment 3 Armin Mohring 2005-12-20 17:35:58 UTC 
Created attachment 61486 [details]
hwinfo --mouse --log=hw.log
Comment 4 Steffen Winterfeldt 2005-12-21 10:20:11 UTC 
I don't see any signs of a serial mouse in that log. What makes you think
it is seen as a mouse?
Comment 5 Armin Mohring 2005-12-21 14:17:31 UTC 
Created attachment 61549 [details]
hwinfo --mouse --log=hw.log
Comment 6 Steffen Winterfeldt 2005-12-21 14:28:38 UTC 
Again, no serial mouse.
Comment 7 Armin Mohring 2005-12-21 18:01:20 UTC 
On console i have entered runlevel 3. Started sax2 and under "mouse", I can see the 
Microsoft Intelli Explorer and a serial mouse. 
The Router is acessed (under windows xp) with a terminal (RS232C).
How can I acess this unit under Suse, so it can be identified?
I also had some problems with the USB mouse (intelli explorer) after the setup of the operating system (suse). The mouse did not work correctly.
Comment 8 Steffen Winterfeldt 2006-01-09 11:39:52 UTC 
I can't really do anything without a log that shows the serial mouse.
The last log you sent shows some response from your serial line while
looking for a mouse, but nothing that would indicate a mouse. Still,
it is possible that some random response looks like a mouse. I'm afraid
the serial code is not going to change much in the future, so your best
approach might be to turn serial detection off using 'hwprobe=-serial'
at the boot prompt.