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			<description><![CDATA[<p>Whilst shopping a few days ago, i stumbled across an old Kensington Webracer.<br /><span class="postimg"><img src="http://www.streettech.com/archives_hardware/webRacer.jpg" alt="http://www.streettech.com/archives_hardware/webRacer.jpg" /></span><br /><em>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;image from:&nbsp; <a href="http://www.streettech.com/archives_hardware/webRacer.html">http://www.streettech.com/archives_hard … Racer.html</a></em></p><p>It&#039;s drivers and applications CD indicated that it was meant for Windows 95 and 98.&nbsp; I purchased it anyway for $10 CDN, considering the fact that many such devices will default to working as a regular mouse.</p><p>After arriving home i tested it as such and it worked as expected.&nbsp; It worked like a mouse, yet scrolling, tap-to-click, nor the Web-buttons worked.&nbsp; I avoided trying the included software as i had no confidence on it&#039;s ability to work with NT5.</p><p>I found Kensington&#039;s support site, yet the product was unlisted.&nbsp; I found their ftp and wasted a couple of hours tracking down and testing any relevant MouseWare software.&nbsp; The latest version that i could find that seemed to support that product and NT5 was &quot;MouseWorks-5_61.exe&quot;.&nbsp; Contradicting what the name implied, it didn&#039;t work.&nbsp; The software could not detect the WebRacer despite the appropriate driver being successfully installed.</p><p>I dismantled the troublesome device and discovered a Synaptics T1004-based TrackPad.&nbsp; My enthusiasm was once again buoyed.&nbsp; After a few searches on the &quot;interweb&quot;, i stumbled acrosse the following two sites.<br /><a href="http://diy.viktak.com/2012/05/laptop-touchpadmouse-pad-salvaging.html">http://diy.viktak.com/2012/05/laptop-to … aging.html</a><br /><a href="http://sparktronics.blogspot.ca/2008/05/synaptics-t1004-based-touchpad-to-ps2.html">http://sparktronics.blogspot.ca/2008/05 … o-ps2.html</a></p><p>It took a couple of hours to isolate the PS/2 cable-end, four main buttons and the TrackPad ribbon connector on the WebRacer&#039;s mainboard.&nbsp; Then i used some small hookup wire to complete the connections according to the Synaptics PS/2 Interfacing guide &quot;ACF126.pdf&quot; linked in one of the aforementioned sites.&nbsp; Using my Digital Multimeter, i verified all connections.</p><p>Unfortunately, after a couple of test runs it became apparent that it was no longer functional.&nbsp; After double-checking all connections, it became apparent that the two pull-up resistors were missing from the PS/2 Data and Clock lines.&nbsp; I found a pair of suitable resistors and eagerly looked forward to success.</p><p>Regrettably that was not the case.&nbsp; Windows did detect it as a standard PS/2 Mouse through a KVM, yet non-functional even with &quot;Synaptics_Driver_v10_1_8_XP32.exe&quot; software installed.&nbsp; It was starting to look like a door-stop.&nbsp; I tried once more by directly plugging it in to PS/2, yet this time Windows wouldn&#039;t detect it at all.</p><p>After reviewing the literature it would appear that the particular TrackPad model in question, that is the &quot;TM41PDJK134-2&quot;, was a custom part and probably has custom firmware included.<br />I found a few more spare TrackPads and realized that they too were custom parts.&nbsp; They didn&#039;t work either.</p><br /><p>Failure sucks!&nbsp; Yet as in baseball, one must learn from both one&#039;s failures as well as one&#039;s successes.&nbsp; Anyone familiar with baseball will know that failure comes far more often than success.</p><p>I write this should anyone else attempt this kind of interfacing in the hope that they will succeed where i had failed.</p>]]></description>
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