FreeBSD9 - I can't get my mouse to work

[Walter Hurry]

On Tue, 05 Jun 2012 23:14:35 +0000, Walter Hurry wrote:

> Firstly, sorry if this is a bit of a newbie question. I am quite new to
> FreeBSD (though fairly experienced at Linux). Almost everything in
> FreeBSD is fine, except that no matter what I try I cannot get the (USB)
> mouse to work.
> 
> Can anyone assist with this?
> 

One bit of information which might be relevant:

This is a laptop with a built-in touchpad. The touchpad works, even 
though I have made no configuration changes for it. Unfortunately, as I 
said, the mouse doesn't.