Re: Logitec Optical USB Wheel Mouse with kernel 2.6.0-1-109 not working

["Christopher K. Johnson" <ckjohnson@xxxxxxx>]

ne... wrote:

> On Jan 3, 2004 at 13:43, Ernest L. Williams Jr. in a soothing rage wrote:
>
>  
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I just went to the kernel 2.6.0-1-109 under Fedora CORE Release 1.
> >
> > My Logitech OPTICAL USB WHEEL Mouse no longer works.  Can someone tell
> > me how to get this going again?  
> >    
> Mine does. There are problems with wheel rodents and the 2.6 kernels.
> Search http://www.kerneltrap.org/ for more info. My grub.conf has the
> following line:
>
> kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.0-1.109 ro root=LABEL=/ psmouse_noext=1
>
> My thoughts are the 'psmouse_noext=1' should help you out.
>
> HTH
>
> N.Emile...
>  
For me adding the following line to /etc/modprobe.conf did the trick, 
then either reboot or modprobe usb-controller to get usb working:
alias usb-controller ohci-hcd

If you have usb 2.0 use this line instead:
alias usb-controller uhci-hcd


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