Microsoft Arc Mouse OS X
- by meepz
I recently bought a new Mac Book Pro with Mountain Lion 10.8 on it. The only portable mouse I have is my Microsoft Arc Mouse. I wanted to use it with the laptop so I installed the IntelliPoint 8.2 for Mac from Microsofts website.
According to their website, this driver is for OS X 10.4-10.7. Now I thought that wouldnt be too much of an issue but unfortunately for me, the driver installs fine and the mouse is detected but I get no movement and when I click the buttons nothing happens. I took the mouse with me on a business trip to EU and before I left I checked if the mouse worked with my desktop which is running Windows 7 and it worked without any hiccups. I'm not too sure where the OS differs from 10.7 to 10.8. I found an article online but it doesn't pertain to my mouse, although it could be of assistance. I have tried my version of their adjustment but I am not too knowledgable on low level hardware/software modifications so I may have done it wrong.
heres the link:
http://refluxions.wordpress.com/2008/08/18/mac-os-x-mouse-madnessfixed/
I get the following details when I check mouse info in the IntelliPoint preferences pane:
The following Microsoft mouse devices are currently connected to your Macintosh driven by the Intellipoint software.
Arc Mouse
Vendor name: Microsoft
Product name: Microsoft AE 2.4GHz Transceiver 5.0
Vendor ID: 045E
Product ID: 074F
Device version: 0140
if anyone has any suggestions on how to fix this it would be greatly appreciated! I love the mouse and im here in EU for another two weeks.
Thanks