LinuxQuestions.org - Mouse, keyboard, NIC

Hello, Im a SuSE user trying to turn Slacker. Ive just recently DLed and installed Slackware 10.0 and the problems im having seem to be between my Microsoft USB optical wheel mouse, my generic PS/2 keyboard and my SmartLink 10/100TX NIC.

The first time I installed I enabled hotplugging durring the install and found that netconfig would not probe for my NIC and that once the install was done, my keyboard would not respond at the login prompt. I remembered reading about how hotplugging could cause problems with USB devices so I plugged my mouse into a USB-PS/2 adaptor and that seemed to fix the problem. I ran xorgconfig and then started X. I figured now I could tackle that NIC problem. Well after hours of trying, I decided to reinstall everything without hotplugging.

After installing the second time (without hotplugging) netconfig probed for, and detected my nic, but then when I tried to go into X my mouse (with the USB-PS/2 adaptor) didnt work anymore. And when I tried it without the adaptor my keyboard would lock up at the login prompt again.

here's the Keyboard and mouse part of my xorg.conf file (without commented lines):

Code:

Section "InputDevice"



    Identifier  "Keyboard1"

    Driver      "Keyboard"



    Option  "AutoRepeat" "500 30"



    Option  "XkbRules"  "xorg"

    Option  "XkbModel"  "pc101"

    Option  "XkpLayout"  "us"



EndSection



Section "InputDevice"



    Identifier  "Mouse1"

    Driver      "Mouse"

    Option  "Protocol"  "IMPS/2"

    Option  "Device"    "/dev/mouse"



EndSection

Ya think the problem could be that I need hotplugging?

In rc.modules everything under USB Host Controllers, USB Device support and USB event drivers is commented. Should I do anything with that stuff?