USB mouse not detected on boot of 7-STABLE

[Kevin Oberman]

> Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 14:32:48 -0500
> From: "Paul A. Procacci" <pprocacci at datapipe.net>
> Sender: owner-freebsd-stable at freebsd.org
> 
> I had the exact same problem.  Not only did my mouse not work on
> boot-up, neither did my usb cable connecting my machine to my modem.
> The only solution that I tried was upgrading to 8, and presto, worked fine.

8.0 has an all new USB stack (thank HPS and a host of others) and it
ROCKS! Hardware that simply would not work on the old stack is operating
flawlessly on 8.0-BETA2.

One note if you want to try 8.0. You will probably need to update all of
your ports to avoid library version mis-matches. Most notably, you need
to rebuild any port that uses libusb and it is now a standard system
library. Ports linked against the old ports libusb will not work after
the upgrade. 

I suggest upgrading to 8.0, deleting libusb, and then doing a
"portupgrade -fa" (or the portmaster equivalent).
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