I installed Debian Woody
I can enter to KDE and can work my way into making
the keyboard move the cursor, but my mouse doesn't not work

It works when booting Knoppix live CD
I tried copying the x86config from knoppix but it doesn't work

Have you tried editing your xorg conf file??
Try different options in the device part for the mouse such as /dev/psaux, /dev/mouse and so on
I a similar problem and I fixed trying those options and also changing Auto for IMPS2 and those options
Hope this helps

Hi:
Its really difficult to get around without a mouse imagine i am in gnome tabing all the way to here, it makes me half mad and half laugh
Wheres this xorg.conf located? i couln't even enter in X untils a copied the XF86Conf made by knoppix to the /etc/X11 in my hd drive...

Woody doesn't do hardware detection. Sarge and Etch do. You wouldn't have this problem if you used the current stable version of Debian (Sarge).

What sometimes happens with Woody is, you install it using a ps/2 mouse, but then switch to a USB mouse (or vice versa) and find that it's no longer working. Or maybe you just put in the wrong info regarding the mouse during the install.

After you boot and get to a desktop, I think it's alt-ctrl-Fkey, where each Fkey (function key, at the top of your keyboard) takes you to a different Linux virtual terminal. From there, you'll want to make sure you have a text editor installed that you know how to use (typically nano or vi/vim), and -- as root -- manually edit your /etc/X11/xorg.conf (or /etc/X11/XF86config or /etc/X11/XF86config4 I think) fixing that line where it figures out where your mouse is plugged in. If it's plugged into an old-style serial port you might use something like /dev/tty0 or somesuch. For a USB mouse it's /dev/input/mice.

Thank You it worked

The following worked for me Im happy now

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "PS/2 Mouse"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "PS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
Option "CorePointer"
EndSection

This did it for me

And in the section :

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "XFree86 Configured"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "PS/2 Mouse"
# Serial Mouse not detected
# USB Mouse not detected
EndSection