Pardon my ignorance when it comes to Linux. For the past few weeks I've been trying to get my USB mouse to work with Red Hat 9. The mouse pad works fine on the laptop, but the system doesn't recognize the USB mouse when I plug it in.

When I run:
$ dmesg

i get:

hub.c: new USB device 00:1d.0-1, assigned address 3
usb.c: USB device 3 (vend/prod 0x47d/0x1012) is not claimed by any active driver.

With
$ tail -s 3 /var/log/messages

I get

Mar 17 08:52:19 localhost kernel: usb.c: USB device 3 (vend/prod 0x47d/0x1012) is not claimed by any active driver.
Mar 17 08:52:22 localhost /etc/hotplug/usb.agent: ... no modules for USB product 47d/1012/100

To try to correct this I have done the following (this is where my ignorance shows):

I have alter my xf86Config file to include:

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "PS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
EndSection



Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "USB Mice"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
Option "Buttons" "5"
EndSection

in the serverlayout section
InputDevice "USB Mice" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "USB Mice" "SendCoreEvents"


and

Section "Xinput"
SubSection "Mouse"
DeviceName "USB Mice"
Protocol "IMPS/2"
Port "/dev/input/mice"
AlwaysCore
EndSubSection
EndSection

I'm using a Kensington usb wheel mouse. When I go into the mouse config and change it to Generic USB Wheel Mouse, I can't get my touch pad or usb mouse to move the curser, I have to use the keyboard to change the config back to Microsoft no mouse so that at lease the touch pad works.

Can anyone help me out?
Thanks.

you might want to try and start off by doing a quick test with modprobe... see if you have usbserial module loaded

modprobe usbserial

I'm not familiar with usb-mouses, even tough I have one myself, but I use the small piece between the usb- and my "regular" mouse port. I never took the middle-piece off, because this works nicely.. you may also list your usb-related modules (all of them) by doing

modprobe -l | grep usb | less

and see if there is some candies for you. but as I said, I'm not familiar with this problem...perhaps someone other is. this just was the first thing to come ty my mind...and it won't harm you if you try to modprobe that altough I'm quite sure it's already there... (if you get no errors, then the module is loaded properly and you may try to plug your mouse again - if you get errors, you might have it already and then this whole thing is useless)

Thanks for the quick response b0uncer. No luck.

here are the resluts from the

modprobe -l | grep usb | less

/lib/modules/2.4.21-4.EL/kernel/drivers/usb/hid.o
/lib/modules/2.4.21-4.EL/kernel/drivers/usb/host/ehci-hcd.o
/lib/modules/2.4.21-4.EL/kernel/drivers/usb/host/uhci.o
/lib/modules/2.4.21-4.EL/kernel/drivers/usb/host/usb-ohci.o
/lib/modules/2.4.21-4.EL/kernel/drivers/usb/host/usb-uhci.o
/lib/modules/2.4.21-4.EL/kernel/drivers/usb/hpusbscsi.o
/lib/modules/2.4.21-4.EL/kernel/drivers/usb/kaweth.o
/lib/modules/2.4.21-4.EL/kernel/drivers/usb/kbtab.o
/lib/modules/2.4.21-4.EL/kernel/drivers/usb/mdc800.o
/lib/modules/2.4.21-4.EL/kernel/drivers/usb/microtek.o
/lib/modules/2.4.21-4.EL/kernel/drivers/usb/pegasus.o
/lib/modules/2.4.21-4.EL/kernel/drivers/usb/powermate.o
/lib/modules/2.4.21-4.EL/kernel/drivers/usb/printer.o
/lib/modules/2.4.21-4.EL/kernel/drivers/usb/rtl8150.o
/lib/modules/2.4.21-4.EL/kernel/drivers/usb/scanner.o
/lib/modules/2.4.21-4.EL/kernel/drivers/usb/serial/belkin_sa.o
/lib/modules/2.4.21-4.EL/kernel/drivers/usb/serial/cyberjack.o
/lib/modules/2.4.21-4.EL/kernel/drivers/usb/serial/digi_acceleport.o
/lib/modules/2.4.21-4.EL/kernel/drivers/usb/serial/empeg.o
/lib/modules/2.4.21-4.EL/kernel/drivers/usb/serial/ftdi_sio.o
/lib/modules/2.4.21-4.EL/kernel/drivers/usb/serial/io_edgeport.o
/lib/modules/2.4.21-4.EL/kernel/drivers/usb/serial/io_ti.o
/lib/modules/2.4.21-4.EL/kernel/drivers/usb/serial/ipaq.o
/lib/modules/2.4.21-4.EL/kernel/drivers/usb/serial/ir-usb.o
/lib/modules/2.4.21-4.EL/kernel/drivers/usb/serial/keyspan.o
/lib/modules/2.4.21-4.EL/kernel/drivers/usb/serial/keyspan_pda.o
/lib/modules/2.4.21-4.EL/kernel/drivers/usb/serial/kl5kusb105.o
/lib/modules/2.4.21-4.EL/kernel/drivers/usb/serial/kobil_sct.o
/lib/modules/2.4.21-4.EL/kernel/drivers/usb/serial/mct_u232.o
/lib/modules/2.4.21-4.EL/kernel/drivers/usb/serial/omninet.o
/lib/modules/2.4.21-4.EL/kernel/drivers/usb/serial/pl2303.o
/lib/modules/2.4.21-4.EL/kernel/drivers/usb/serial/usbserial.o
/lib/modules/2.4.21-4.EL/kernel/drivers/usb/serial/visor.o
/lib/modules/2.4.21-4.EL/kernel/drivers/usb/serial/whiteheat.o
/lib/modules/2.4.21-4.EL/kernel/drivers/usb/storage/usb-storage.o
/lib/modules/2.4.21-4.EL/kernel/drivers/usb/usb-midi.o
/lib/modules/2.4.21-4.EL/kernel/drivers/usb/usbcore.o
/lib/modules/2.4.21-4.EL/kernel/drivers/usb/usbnet.o
/lib/modules/2.4.21-4.EL/kernel/drivers/usb/uss720.o
/lib/modules/2.4.21-4.EL/kernel/drivers/usb/wacom.o

I'm not sure what this means, or what I should do with this information.

basically I meant that if in that list was some module name which would have your mouse's name in it (like there is ipaq.o for ipaq's), you could try and modprobe it.. but I guess it won't help then if there isn't

if you still want to try this modprobe-thing, try the following (and then plug in your mouse - if you reboot after modprobe, you'll lose the modules unless you add them to some init file):

btw, do your other usb devices work ok?

I ended up editing the following file.

/etc/modules.conf

I inserted in the following line:

alias usb- controler usb-uhci

Hope this helps someone.

ndj

This part appears to be incorrect, try this.

in the serverlayout section
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "USB Mice" "AlwaysCore"