USB mice

[Teilhard Knight]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Russell J. Wood" <rjw at dynode.net>
To: <freebsd-questions at freebsd.org>
Sent: Saturday, December 24, 2005 8:43 AM
Subject: Re: USB mice


> On Sat, Dec 24, 2005 at 03:36:28AM -0600, Teilhard Knight wrote:
>> It seems to me that the way FreeBSD is catching up with new hardware 
>> leaves
>> you unsatisfied. One has to choose, upon boot, the option to use an USB
>> keyboard by hand, and I have found no way to make a USB mouse to work. 
>> The
>> OS broadly supports serial mice and hardly PS/2 mice, both almost out of
>> the market nowadays. Are USB mice supported by FreeBSD?
>
> I have a USB keyboard and I don't have to choose the ``USB Keyboard''
> option at start up. Also, I have a USB Mouse hooked up via a hub in my
> keyboard. Works fine.

Are they, your keyboard and your mouse, wireless?

Teilhard.