From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 19 01:02:05 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F09FD16A4CE for ; Thu, 19 Feb 2004 01:02:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp.mailbox.co.uk (smtp.mailbox.net.uk [195.82.125.32]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BDB1343D1D for ; Thu, 19 Feb 2004 01:02:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from waynep@smtp.penguinpowered.org) Received: from [212.18.250.170] (helo=smtp.penguinpowered.org) by smtp.mailbox.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1) id 1Atk4J-0005rM-00; Thu, 19 Feb 2004 09:02:04 +0000 Received: from waynep by smtp.penguinpowered.org with local (Exim 4.30; FreeBSD) id 1Atk6h-0002U3-BK; Thu, 19 Feb 2004 09:04:31 +0000 Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 09:04:31 +0000 From: Wayne Pascoe To: Blain M Gatterdam Message-ID: <20040219090431.GA9428@marvin.penguinpowered.org> References: <200402182049.i1IKnOGl021354@pop-7.dnv.wideopenwest.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200402182049.i1IKnOGl021354@pop-7.dnv.wideopenwest.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-System: FreeBSD i386 with kernel 5.1-RELEASE-p10 Sender: Wayne Pascoe cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Microsoft USB wireless mouse X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 09:02:06 -0000 On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 03:55:16PM -0500, Blain M Gatterdam wrote: > I recently bought a micro innovations wireless USB mouse and it worked great > with my FreeBSD. It didn't work too good with windows, so I bought a > Microsoft wireless USB intelimouse. No matter how many times I try to > connect the mouse and the receiver, it wont work. I tried going to the > peripherals and see if I could fix it, but there's no options. I'm a > beginner on FreeBSD and could use any help possible, THANKS! Try unplugging the mouse and receiver at boot time, and then watching the messagse log when you plug it in. See what appears in there and if that might give any pointers. To watch your messages log, do the following (as root) before plugging in the mouse and the receiver: tail -f /var/log/messages When you plug the mouse and the receiver in, some more lines should appear in this file. Regards, -- Wayne Pascoe Give me enough medals, and I'll win any war. - Napolean