> From: "Matthew Alan Shirey" <mshirey@gocougs.wsu.edu>
> Subject: USB Port
> Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 10:22:49 -0700

Heyas. =)
 
I just started installing Linux on my A21p yesterday.  I actually didn't
find your page until after the fact but I figured most out from trial
and error (emphasis on the error part).  Anyway I noticed that you
didm't have anything for USB.  I am currently using one of Microsoft's
Optical mice.  During install it detected a generic 3 button usb mouse.
After install the mouse would light up but was not being used by the
system, but the trackpoint was working.  This was the case for console
and X.  I tried to re-run the mouse setup and it kept complaining about
an error on line 5 of the mouse file.  This line set the device to
/dev/mouse I could not resolve why it was having a problem with this.  I
deleted the file, re-ran that mouse setup and it again detected the USB
mouse fine,  I told it to update my X stuff and then all was working
great with the USB Mouse.  
 
I am currently using RedHat 7.1 and I chose the "Laptop" installation
method.  It installs and configures most of the laptop related things
automatically.  Hell it wasn't even too difficult (okay maybe 3 hours)
to get my US Robotics Wireless Lan PCMCIA card to work.
 
Hope this info is useful. =)
 
-- Matthew