The hardware is an opentec clone of a Sun Ultra 10, with a sun type 5 keyboard &
sun mouse. The machine also has 2 ps2 sockets for keyboard  mouse. The OS is
Debian-sparc 3.0 r1.
What I want to do is replace the crappy, worn-out sun mouse with a nice new
optical ps2 wheel mouse.

Running od -x /dev/sunmouse outputs nice hexadecimal when I move the sun mouse.
Running od -x /dev/psaux returns "no such device".

cd /dev; ./MAKEDEV psaux  returns "don't know how to make device "psaux" "

rm psaux; mknod -m 600 psaux c 10 1 doesn't return any errors
but od -x /dev/psaux still returns "no such device"

The kernel is 2.4.18.  I downloaded the kernel source for 2.4.22 and went
through make xconfig, but I can't see any options particularly appropriate for
enabling ps2 mice.

dmesg returns, amongst other things
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice

I tried posting this question to the debian-sparc list, which is where I learnt
about the "od" command, and I've googled myself silly, but I'm obviously missing
something.

If someone could please point me in the right direction, I'd be really grateful.

Amanda


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