wireless keyboard with built in mouse

[Brian K. White]

A while back I posted description of the mouse part of a wireless usb 
keyboard not working on 5.4
 this questio and got asked what happens when I cat /dev/uhid0 while moving 
the mouse, pressing the buttons etc..
http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?200507311722.52659.mistry.7

Then later someone else added the comment that the problem is that there is 
more than one device on one usb receiver and that 6.0 has the necessary usb 
updates to handle that:
I can't find a link to that comment. Maybe they sent it directly rather than 
to either -current or -usb and I've deleted my copy since then.

Well I have a 6.0 box now, cvsupped a couple days ago
FreeBSD 6.0-RC1 (AMDEMON) #2: Wed Oct 12 05:28:36 EDT 2005

And so far as I can tell, it behaves exactly the same as 5.4. The keyboard 
works fine, no part of the mouse works at all.
(I had to google up the boot: comand to set a atkbd0 flags hint and set the 
keyboard to legacy support in the bios in order to install, since the boot 
menu and it's usb keyboard option went away, but after that I could turn the 
legacy emulation option back off in the bios and the keyboad continues to 
work with no manual or loader.conf rc.conf hacks by me)

I couldn't answer the first question by the time I received it but now I 
can. On 6.0 though the original question was for 5.4.
Nothing happens. Specifically, cat appears to open the device ok, it sits 
there as long as I want until I ctrl-c, and outputs nothing.

On the same box, it works fine plugging in a non-wireless usb keyboard that 
has a 2 port usb hub built-in, and a normal usb mouse already plugged into 
one of the ports on the keyboard.
both the keyboard and mouse are recognized and a /dev/ums0 is created and 
usbd starts a moused on it.

Again, it works fully, out of the box with no manual intervention on recent 
linux (suse 9.3 & up)
Is it possible the multiple device recognition thing exists but is really in 
7 instead of 6?

Thanks
Brian K. White  --  brian at aljex.com  --  http://www.aljex.com/bkw/
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