How do I create USB mouse device files on 11.23?

[Tony Williams]

Missing USB Mouse device files after new Install of 11.23/PA on C3000 workstation. CDE will not start becuase there are no device files for the mouse. There are device files for the USB keyboard. insf -e does not create them. The mouse is found and claimed in ioscan. How do I create the the USB mouse device files?

[Peter Godron]

Tony,
have a look at this thread:
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=953916

It gives a few things to try.

[Tony Williams]

Thanks Peter,

After looking closer the mouse device files are installed but they are listed under the the device files for the keyboard. The H/W path for the keyboard is 10/0/14/2.1.2. The description is "USB HID Kbd(0) Mouse (1). There are /dev/hid/firstmouse, /dev/hid/mouse_000 ... mouse_007.

The H/W path for the mouse is 10/0/14/2.1.3 and its description is USB HID Mouse(2) with no device files. I have a generic 101 Key USB keyboard from Belkin.

Not sure why the keyboard is grabbing all of the mouse device files but removing them and recreating makes no difference.