Mandrake sees the mouse as a PS/2 mouse. It doesn't matter if you have a PS/2 mouse
and
you connected it to your machine via a serial adapter, it's how it actually connects
to the
machine that it cares about. So if the PS/2 connection is how it gets to your machine,
that's what kind of mouse it is.
There's a possiblity that your machine doesn't "support" USB in it's current
configuration,
or you have USB disabled via the Motherboard BIOS. One way you can check is to check
these
files.
[timh@r2d2 bin]$ cat /etc/modules.conf
pre-install pcmcia_core CARDMGR_OPTS=-f /etc/rc.d/init.d/pcmcia start
alias usb-interface usb-uhci
alias eth0 3c59x
alias sound-slot-0 es1371
[timh@r2d2 bin]$ cat /proc/interrupts
CPU0
0: 36280078 XT-PIC timer
1: 37744 XT-PIC keyboard
2: 0 XT-PIC cascade
3: 1807191 XT-PIC usb-uhci, usb-uhci, eth0
4: 85287 XT-PIC es1371
10: 19361068 XT-PIC ide2
12: 377566 XT-PIC PS/2 Mouse
14: 476 XT-PIC ide0
NMI: 0
LOC: 0
ERR: 0
The lines you'd be looking for are:
alias usb-interface usb-uhci
And:
3: 1807191 XT-PIC usb-uhci, usb-uhci, eth0
If you see something in those that mentions USB, then it's recognized and should work.
If
it's disabled, then I don't believe it will even send power down the USB cable to the
device.
tdh
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| I have a logitech wheel mouse that works good as the
| PS 2 mode, but it has a USB plug on it originally, I have
| a usb to PS2 adaptor, so is this mosue really a real USB mouse?
|
| m-bd58
|
| is the model number I think.
|
| I tried to get mdk 8 to turn it on, maybe my motherboard
| connector is puked up or something.
|
| I can't get the red lite ro come on when I plug it into usb
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