Wondering what the next steps could be for this off-brand gamepad controller that I received at no cost. Your help in keeping this from the trash can is appreciated.

The name on the controller is Cognex In-sight. On the back of the controller says, Cognex .. Video for Industry .. Made in China . There is no other documentation, and the Cognex website shows no indication that they make gamepads.

With an Ubuntu 8.10 installation, I installed the jsconfiguration tool and made sure that the joydev module was installed. Upon boot, dmesg shows this message :
[ 7.436149] usb 6-9.3: new low speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 5
[ 7.533116] usb 6-9.3: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[ 7.539109] input: Cognex Cognex USB Control Pad as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:13.1/usb2/2-1/2-1:1.0/input/input1
[ 7.539158] input,hidraw0: USB HID v1.10 Joystick [Cognex Cognex USB Control Pad] on usb-0000:00:13.1-1

However, there is no /dev/input/js0 created. I tried to search for more information online, but I am feeling stuck at this point. I think I need to have a supporting kernel module, and I tried installing "analog" without success.

Any ideas on what I should do with this gamepad controller?