From: "Michael Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I am definitely no guru when it comes to usb devices; but I have a 60g > pocketec usb 2.0 drive working pretty well now to hold tunes/data files. > My latest attempt is with one of the smallish USB laptop mice that MS > makes. This is only a usb device. I have hotplug and usbutils > installed and the device gets id'ed after I insert the input stuff as > well as usb HID. According to some help I have read, with the mouse > plugged in if I do a "cat /dev/input/mice" and move the mouse around I > should see some characters on the screen. The cat opens /dev/input/mice > but I cannot seem to get the mouse working whatsoever. I think I have > all the pieces working together.
Not your mouse, laptop or kernel :-) but I did recently get a MS Blue Wireless mouse working and the other thing I had to do (after creating /dev/input/mice) was add 'hid' to /etc/modules (echo hid >>/etc/modules). Once I did that, everything else worked fine.
