The Newton Peripherals MoGo Mouse is an innovative wireless Bluetooth mouse which has the neat ability to fold up and stow away in a laptop's PCMCIA slot.
A very cool piece of hardware, but there are two major things which could be improved upon:
- It lacks a scroll wheel, but you can easily emulate one with software.
- It has no device driver, so you permanently end up with one of these:
If you have one of these mice and are a purist like me (and don't like having strange exclamation points in your device manager) then you probably searched the web for some kind of dummy device driver but were unable to find one. I had the same problem myself, so I searched for other implementations of dummy drivers, and found one for a RAID controller card. So, I took that dummy INF file and modified it slightly (changed the strings, device class, etc..) to match the MoGo Mouse device ID and description.
After some trial and error, I finally got it to work, with the following result:
The INF file I created can be found here:
- MOGO_DUMMY.INF
This file has been downloaded 2 times.
Or if you have trouble downloading it, here it is in ZIP archive format:
- MOGO_DUMMY.ZIP
This file has been downloaded 1 times.
***NOTE***:
You may see this error when the Found New Hardware Wizard completes:
I received this error myself.. It doesn't seem to affect anything adversely (since the mouse doesn't actually DO anything while docked, other than suck electricity from the host's PCMCIA slot) and the only time you will see it is at the end of the Found New Hardware Wizard.
Afterwards, whenever you plug/remove the MoGo Mouse from the PCMCIA slot, it will properly appear/disappear in the Device Manager like a normal device insertion/removal. Now the mouse is even more nifty than it already was!!
I hope this helps somebody. Your mileage may vary.
--Adrian <adrian@weasel.net>