On Thursday 17 Oct 2002 12:43 pm, David wrote: > Hi y'all...I need to setup USB on my laptop as I have a few USB devices > (External CD-RW, Palm Pilot, etc). When I setup the Operating System > the other night (Mandrake-Linux 8.0) it detected my USB wheel-mouse and > that tested successfully. When I tried to run X-windows last night, it > wouldn't work, but some of the many wonderful subscribers to this list > assisted me with "mousedrake" so that I could get a PS/2 mouse running - > Big Thanks guys! - but now I'm wondering how to get into the USB config > side of things.. Would "usbdrake" work? TIA, DaveA
David To use the Microsoft Intellimouse with usb you have to edit the file /etc/modules and put hid at the bottom of the file. As described here http://www.club-nihil.net/mub/viewtopic.php?t=5834&highlight=usb+mouse This file is a system file, so you need root permissions to edit it:- KMenu>Applications>FileTools>FileManager(SuperUserMode) give root password, navigate to the file you want to edit, rightclick, OpenWith>kedit Then run mousedrake again to select a usb mouse. This is why I suggested just leaving it as PS/2. It will work just as well, you just do not have the hassle of editing files :) All your other USB devices will work without any editing. Mandrake uses 'devfs' which means as soon as you plug a device in it will be detected and configured. (Although I am not at all sure that Linux supports USB attached CD writers?) If you have a usb scanner just plug it in and run 'scannerdrake' to set up your particular device (not all scanners are supported though) For a usb printer, just plug it in and run 'printerdrake' (BTW: all these mandrake tools can be found in the Mandrake Control Centre GUI, there is no need to exit to the console like I described yesterday. You only had to do that because you had no mouse :-) HTH derek
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