Thank you Marco for reporting this bug, and Draekko for giving us the patch to fix it !
I suffered from this problem. It's quite frustrating when your input devices doesn't work. While the solution is quite easy, even a kernel newbie like me managed to did it. I can not imagine why it's still not fixed in the latest update of Precise / 12.04 Anyway, after patching the current ubuntu kernel & recompiled it, now my new mouse works flawlessly ! :D Unfortunately, there are a lot of tutorials on how to recompile your kernel, and most are wrong in one way or another. For newbies, it must be very frustrating. I followed the excellent tutorial here to recompile the kernel on my Ubuntu Precise Pangolin (12.04) : http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/ubuntu/how-to-customize-your-ubuntu-kernel/ With a minor edit; this is the first command which will work with any version of your current kernel : sudo apt-get install linux-source-`uname -r` kernel-package libncurses5-dev fakeroot DO NOT follow the instructions here : https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/BuildYourOwnKernel It does NOT work. I wasted a whole day & only got more confused by the errors caused by it. So here's what I did, copy-paste style : =================================================== ### create a temporary directory mkdir ~/tmp cd tmp ### install required packages sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install linux-source-`uname -r` kernel-package libncurses5-dev fakeroot ### copy current kernel configurations cp /boot/config-`uname -r` ~/tmp/linux-`uname -r`/.config ### let's go to the kernel source's directory cd ~/tmp/linux-`uname -r` ### you can reconfigure anything; ### if you want to leave everything as before then just skip this step make menuconfig ### let's compile ! ### clean up everything first make-kpkg clean ### change 5 into the number of your CPU's cores + 1 ### it will make the recompiling process much faster export CONCURRENCY_LEVEL=5 ### recompiling now time fakeroot make-kpkg --initrd --append-to-version=-custom kernel_image kernel_headers ### let's install the new kernel packages cd .. sudo dpkg -i *deb ### reboot sudo reboot ### hope it helps ! -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1021019 Title: generic wireless mouse not working To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/linux/+bug/1021019/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
