USB mouse problems (mouse strts working only when i start the network conf program)

[Bob Chiodini]

On Wed, 2005-09-14 at 13:10 +0100, James Wilkinson wrote:
> Harikumar Krishnan wrote:
> > yeah i found something else too........
> > the whole usb devices are detected only after i run the 
> > system-config-network. b4 running that the lsusb output is blank, theres 
> > alot of additions in the /var/log/messages files.... USB hub and others r 
> > only just found out when i run system-config-network.
> 
> Weird. Looks like your system is using a Via chipset[1]: I don't have 64
> bit experience with these. Which one is it? (The output of lspci should
> help).
> 
> Are you fully up to date? (Have you used something like yum update to
> get all the FC4 updates?) At the very least, you should have the latest
> kernel, which is 2.6.12-1.1447_FC4 at time of writing.
> 
> When exactly do the USB devices get detected? When you enter
> system-config-network, or when you exit? And are you using a graphical
> version or a text version?
> 
> Sooner or later, you're probably going to have to enter this in
> bugzilla.redhat.com. You'll want to include all this information.
> 
> James.
> 

What does lspci, lsusb, and lsmod show immediately after booting, before
running system-config-network?  If the usb modules are not loaded, does
'modprobe uhci_hcd ehci_hcd' (w/o quotes) get the mouse working?  Also,
can you cat /etc/modprobe.conf?

Bob...