[NTLUG:Discuss] Wireless Keyboard

[Ralph Miller]

Please explain why this works.

I bought a "Microsoft Wireless Desktop Elite Keyboard"
and "Wireless Intellimouse Explorer 2.0" combination. 
Both have tilt wheels.  Nice!  Once I swapped the
connections for the receiver to the PC, they work
great.  Nice not to have wires.

BTW, Office Depot has a $30 rebate right now ($10
there and $20 mail-in), so the end cost will be $70,
not $100 (or as they say, "$99.99).

I installed the CD with drivers for both with Windows
XP as the OS.  Then I removed the hard drive with XP
and installed the HD with RHLinux9, but did add
drivers for them.   I expected they would not work. 
However, they work great here, too.   

Question:  Why do they work on the Linux hard drive
when no special drivers were added, while XP required
them?

Thanks, Ralph M.