I am trying to get a usb mouse working on Debian Unstable.

It is a microsoft explorer mouse plugged into a usb 2.0 pci card. The pci card works fine since I can use a mass storage device on it just fine, and I am getting the light on the mouse turned on.

I compiled a new 2.4.21 kernel for my debian, but I started with the source from apt-get (already had debian patches applied) and I started with the default debian config file. I only changed a few options to match my processor and enable a few extra drivers. I also turned on usb 2.0 support.

From dmesg, I believe my mouse is recognized. I have the ehci module loaded (for the pci card), and the mousedev and input modules.

At the end of dmsg is a line that starts with:

hiddev0: (Description of my mouse)Bus5:2.0

I believe it was Bus5, I've read usb devices tend to jump around buses.

I installed usbutils, but lsusb lists nothing for me. My /proc/bus/usb directory is completely empty.

I've read that if you know the mouse device you can for example type:

cat /dev/input/mice

And then wiggle the mouse and get some output. Well, no devices seem to give me output.

So I believe my usbmouse is recognized, but I can't tell which device it is.

If it's something deeper, like a module I forgot to compile and load, I'm more than willing to recompile.

I know I can use the ps/2 adapter, but I've already got the mouse configured on 4 other operating systems (including FreeBSD) and I don't really want to change all those. Also, I'm viewing this as a learning experience.

So mainly I just want to know if my mouse is being recognized, and if it is, which device is it?

Thanks for anything,

Isamoor

Did you specifically include bus mouse support when you recompiled your kernel? It's located in Character devices->Mice->Bus mouse. If so try

# modprobe busmouse