Re: [gentoo-user] Logitech cordless

[Iain Buchanan <iaindb@netspace.net.au>]

On Mon, 2006-05-22 at 22:51 -0400, James Colby wrote:
> List members -
> 
> I am trying to use a Logitech cordless keyboard and mouse with my
> gentoo based laptop.  When I try to boot into linux the cordless
> receiver is never enabled.

never?  Did you wait until X boots?

>   After doing some research on google it
> appears that the easiest solution is to use a USB to PS2 adapter for
> the usb connection, but unfortunately that will not work for me as I
> only have one ps2 slot.

using ps2 shouldn't be necessary.

>   Does anyone know if there is a kernel option
> or a third party driver that I could install to enable my cordless
> keyboard and mouse.

The fact that it's cordless doesn't matter.  The dongle pretends to be
the keyboard and mouse on their behalf...

I can think of three things you may need to do:

1. you need to turn on usb legacy in the bios (never understood why it
was called "legacy", but you need this to use usb keyboards before the
OS loads the usb drivers, eg in grub)

2a. you need hotplug / coldplug or whatever udev has replaced it with.
I'm using ~x86 which obsoletes hotplug and coldplug in favour of udev,
but if you're using x86, hotplug and coldplug may still be around.
OR
2b. Instead of coldplug, you could just load the usb modules
automatically on boot with /etc/modules.d/...

3. You might not have compiled usb support into your kernel, or maybe
you left out usbhid.

let me know how you go with those pointers.
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Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au>

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