DOS 6.22, WFW 3.11 and USB 1.1 ?????

[Melkor]

Hello. I received as a gift an old 300 MHz PC from my girlfriend to use for
school ( going after A+, MCSE . I have used computers since I was 12 ( 29
now ) and I currently have a laptop with Win XP home. Isdtarted out on an
8088 with 640k RAM, 21 meg hard drive and DOS 3.3.

So I have been working on PCs awhile.

But I want to take this 300MHZ box, format it and install DOS 6.22 and WFW
3.11. My question is Can I get the USB ports on this old box to work in DOS
or WFW 3.11. It would help out with space as I have a wireless Microsoft
Keyboard/Mouse set now I use on laptop. It hooks up via USB. I have extra
PS/2 mouse/Keyboard<s> but for space saving reasons would be NICE to be
able to use the wireless setup on the old PC.

Any ideas?

Thank you.

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[Mike Jones]

yes, search for usb dos mouse on google

http://www.stefan2000.com/darkehorse/PC/DOS/Drivers/USB/

is a good start

[Adam Leinss]

"Melkor" <no....@blah.org> wrote in
news:2op8gkF...@uni-berlin.de:

USB support was flaky at best under Windows 95 OSR2 (which had no
native support for USB). Best of luck to you getting it to run
correctly under Windows 3.11!

Adam

[kony]

On Sat, 21 Aug 2004 10:36:50 -0500, "Melkor" <no....@blah.org>
wrote:

Use the USB-> PS2 adapter that should've came with the
keyboard/mouse, or find one... it's just a straight through
port/pin-adapter..

[Bennett Price]

Even if you can find usb drivers for DOS you might have trouble at
bootup (before dos loads). The motherboard may complain, fatally, that
a keyboard is missing.

[Rick]

For a mouse and a keyboard? And a wireless keyboard and mouse at
that? Doubtful. Any DOS support for USB that I've seen is pretty
much device specific, largely supporting storage devices. I think
there's a driver for a standard USB mouse but not for wireless
devices. Just Google using DOS USB DRIVERS and you should find
anything that's available. But unless someone created a DOS driver
specifically for this wireless mouse/keyboard combo I don't think it
will fly.

[Al Dykes]

ISTR that the MS wireless keyboard requires some MS software installed
from the CD. If you've got the model I'm familiar with, no way is that
stuff going to run in DOS/WFW.

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[Sauli Suikkanen]

This may also help:

http://www.bootdisk.com/usb.htm

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S.Suikkanen

[AAH]

Have a look at the MS-DOS 7.10 in the
next thread.

"Melkor" <no....@blah.org> wrote in message
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[Al Dykes]

In article <e$nXL78hE...@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl>,

Take a look at OpenSource DOS (freedos.org).

They have something to say about USB:

http://www.freedos.org/freedos/news/newsitem/149.html

[DaveW]

There are no drivers for USB 1.1 in OS's that old.

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DaveW

"Melkor" <no....@blah.org> wrote in message
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[Artur Yelchishchev]

On Sat, 21 Aug 2004 23:07:57 GMT, "DaveW" <no...@zero.org> wrote:

>There are no drivers for USB 1.1 in OS's that old.

You're wrong, Dave.

Artur

[Timothy Baldwin]

In message <2op8gkF...@uni-berlin.de>, Melkor <no....@blah.org> wrote:

> But I want to take this 300MHZ box, format it and install DOS 6.22 and
> WFW
> 3.11.

Given enough RAM more modern operating systems will give reasonable
performance.

> My question is Can I get the USB ports on this old box to work in
> DOS
> or WFW 3.11. It would help out with space as I have a wireless Microsoft
> Keyboard/Mouse set now I use on laptop.

Enabling USB Legacy support in the BIOS may sufficent.

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