Hi there,

I have a very very old mouse that uses a USB adapter & I won't give up the mouse b/c it's saved my wrists, arms & hands from years of pain & allows me to work very fast.

I want to move over to Linux from MS & this is the one thing that would stop me so I'm hoping someone can help us.

We are still having problems doing this.

My geek friend has been helping me (he's a Win guy) using this site - https://www.usb-drivers.org/usb-seri...ntu-linux.html

It is the one that's a Tripplite example, but it may not be the exact model as the pic looks different than the one I have which I bought back in 2000 or so.

We are on the last step #18 trying to install the driver, but when we go to install it from the command, it doesn't work.

This is the error we get

sudo apt-get install tripplite
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package tripplite

Then we went to Tripplite, got the drivers from there & followed their instructions to install it, & got this other error..

mint@mint:~/Downloads/Linux/Redhat9$ make && sudo make install
gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-2.4/include -I/usr/src/linux-2.4/drivers/usb/serial -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -Wno-unused -DMODULE -c pl2303.c
pl2303.c:33:10: fatal error: linux/config.h: No such file or directory
#include <linux/config.h>
^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
compilation terminated.
Makefile:45: recipe for target 'pl2303.o' failed
make: *** [pl2303.o] Error 1

Someone else asked us for the steps so we have all of those if you need them, but no one else has been able to help.

Please help so I can move to Mint.

Thanks a ton.

You need to post the output of the lsusb command with the adapter connected as shown in that guide.

The driver you downloaded is for an extremely old kernel and will not work with the latest distributions. The pl2303 (which is what you are trying to compile) or ftdi chipsets are the most common types of of USB serial adapters and with most distributions the driver should already be included. If your device is recognized then the correct driver should be automatically loaded.

Getting the serial mouse recognized by the desktop is another matter.

Hi there,

So I've attached the step you wanted.

So how do we get the mouse to work thru the USB adapter if it is in fact there which we don't know if it is there 100%, right?

But I realize you are right, we just looked & under Control Panel Devices in Win it shows the name of the mouse, so I guess it does have some sort of driver in there.

Just to clarify, the error we got was for the USB driver, not the mouse.

Thanks a ton

Attached Files

Steps 7 and 9.txt (2.7 KB, 26 views)

I have a similar device
Look at the output of the following command to see if it is recognized correctly and should be something similar to mine below.
dmesg | grep USB0
Try this to see if you can get your mouse to be recognized by the desktop.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php...o_kernel_input

You do? Can I get a link to your mouse?

We have a step for that too LOL

Here it is.

Thanks

Attached Files

Step 12.txt (1.5 KB, 32 views)

The usb serial port adapter not mouse.

The adapter is device ID is /dev/ttyUSB0.

Ok, yes, that's what was in the command line. It's the part at the end of the text file. Did you read that part? Unfortunately some extra info got added in there that shouldn't have been in there, so it's just the last few lines of step 12.

So what do we do next?

Thanks

Check out the link in post #4

Ok, we just ran the input attach command. The command never went back to a command prompt, but the 2nd time we tried, we finally got it working. The first time it stopped working when we shut down the Terminal window.

But I'm very upset now b/c the mouse was hurting my thumb as it felt like it was dragging & despite increasing the acceleration it still hurt me.

When I went back to Win it was fine.

Do you think it's b/c of the thumb drive or is this going to be a problem with Linux?

Thanks

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