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Date:      Tue, 17 Dec 2002 12:02:50 -0700
From:      "Thomas Connolly" <tpconnolly@frii.com>
To:        "'Walker Pendleton'" <wtp@stgiles-moraga.org>, <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        "'Mark-Nathaniel Weisman'" <mark@outlander.us>
Subject:   RE: Wireless USB Mouse.
Message-ID:  <003001c2a5fe$e624e8d0$5608a8c0@ceesi.com>
In-Reply-To: <20021217185312.GA1537@stgiles-moraga.org>

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Thanks for the advice Walker.  Please excuse the ignorance but I'm a =
newb.
How can I tell if usbd is running or not?  I have a usb optical mouse =
that
works just fine in the console and x.  The wireless does not.

Thomas P. Connolly
Senior Development Engineer
Colorado Engineering Experiment Station Inc.
Phone: (970) 897-2711
Fax: (970) 897-2710
Email: tconnolly@ceesi.com
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-----Original Message-----
From: Walker Pendleton [mailto:wtp@stgiles-moraga.org]=20
Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2002 11:53 AM
To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Cc: Thomas Connolly; Mark-Nathaniel Weisman
Subject: Re: Wireless USB Mouse.

Gentlemen,

This reply reveals my *own* lapse in trying to get my spiffy wireless
trackball (why a wireless /trackball/?) to work:

Did you remember to start usbd?

With this, the trackball started working everywhere. Without it,
nothin'!

On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 11:45:47AM -0700, Thomas Connolly wrote:
> Mark,
> I am having the exact same problem.  Does your mouse work other than =
in X?
> Mine does not work at all.
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> Thomas P. Connolly
> Senior Development Engineer
> Colorado Engineering Experiment Station Inc.
> Phone: (970) 897-2711
> Fax: (970) 897-2710
> Email: tconnolly@ceesi.com
> =20
>=20
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of =
Mark-Nathaniel
> Weisman
> Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2002 11:18 AM
> To: questions@freebsd.org
> Subject: Wireless USB Mouse.
>=20
> Can anyone point me to a good how-to regarding the setup of a wireless
> USB mouse that will be recognized in XFree86? I've got a Wireless MS
> Explorer mouse, and I've recomplied the kernel to ensure that the USB
> recognition stuff was in there, I rebuilt the driver in /dev, and the
> silly thing still won't recognize. Any ideas?
>=20
> His Faithful Servant,
> Mark
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