no data from USB wireless mouse

[Hans Petter Selasky]

On Friday 19 January 2007 16:53, Andrew Tamm wrote:
> Hans Petter Selasky wrote:
> >> I am having no success at all in getting a Microsoft Optical Wireless
> >> Desktop Pro mouse to work in FreeBSD 6.2-RC2.
> >>
> >> The kernel sees it as:
> >> ums0: Microsoft Microsoft Wireless Optical Desktop
> >> ums0: 5 buttons and Z dir and a TILT dir.
> >>
> >> cat /dev/usm0 gives no data, no matter what buttons are pushed on the
> >> mouse.
> >>
> >> After looking online, I saw a few things to try, the first of which to
> >> recompile the kernel with USB_dEBUG option enabled.  After doing this,
> >> and cranking hw.usb.usm.debug up to 10, I still can get nothing out of
> >> the usm0, however, typing cat /dev/usm0 and then hitting ^C gives this
> >> following message: (note the system has been rebooted with a second
> >> wired mouse attached at usm0, so the offending device has moved to usm1
> >> )
> >>
> >> ums_intr: sc=0xc50bf000 status=6
> >> ums_intr: data = 00 00 00 00 00 00
> >
> > Could you try my new USB stack:
> >
> > # You need /usr/ports/devel/subversion installed
> >
> > svn --username anonsvn --password anonsvn \
> >       checkout svn://svn.turbocat.net/i4b
> > #
> > # The following commands will
> > # install the driver on FreeBSD:
> > #
> > cd i4b/trunk/i4b/FreeBSD.usb
> > make S=../src package
> > make install
> >
> > When the kernel is built, enable the ums debug sysctl. Set it to 15. Then
> > repeat your tests, if the mouse doesn't work.
> >
> > --HPS
>
> Done, now i'm not getting the status=6 when I cat the usm1, and the mouse
> still does not work.  ''ums_open'' appears when you cat the usm1, but
> nothing else on mouse move or click.  The other wired mouse ( also an
> Intellimouse ) giving a copius amount of data though.  Could the MS
> wireless require some init code to be sent?  I've seen that they will work
> using a PS/2 adaptor, but that seems messy and improper.
>

Markus Brueffer is working on some HID parsing improvements. Maybe that will 
fix it.

But could you have run "sysctl hw.usb.ums.debug=15". Then plug your mouse, 
open /dev/umsX, and then move the mouse around a little bit. Do you get any 
messages?

--HPS