I did not notice in your earlier post that you were using 8.0. The fix for the intellimouse should still work, but do not count on your palm pilot working with 8.0
derek On Thursday 17 Oct 2002 1:11 pm, David Alford wrote: > Hi ET, > > Yeah, guess I might have to... Apart from that problem it > seems to be going like a dream, but still early days, huh? > > :) Will probably order the Boxed Set of 9.0 (is that the > > correct terminology?) pretty soon. I can synch the Palm > with my Windoze box at present, so its not crucial right > at the moment... Hey, thanks for the advice though! ... > DaveA > > On Thursday 17 October 2002 07:43 am, 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 > > 8.0 is not the best idea for USB, unless you have a much > more current kernel. > when 8.0 was new, so was kernel support for USB. it has > gotten MUCH better. > can you upgrade to a newer version?
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