is there anything special that needs to be done to get a serial mouse working in linux? i'm using Mandrake 9.2 w/2.4.22-10 kernel. when i installed it i had a PS/2 mouse, but now i need to get a serial mouse installed and it doesn't seem to want to work. if i su and type mousedrake from the command line, i get the following error:

modprobe: Can't locate module serial

when i view the /var/log/messages file, it looks like after i type the command mousedrake in, the system runs modprobe serial, modprobe -n serial, and serial probe before it actually brings up the mousedrake GUI. dmesg | grep serial gives me nothing, and i'm not sure what else to post. any suggestions?

cat /proc/modules | grep serial gives me nothing as well btw