[ale] OT:Hardware but it is running Linux

[Scott Castaline]

Ok, I've had this USB wireless trackball by Logitech connected through 
as PS/2 adapter for quite some time, since my then Logitech keyboard was 
PS/2. Recently the keyboard died so I bought a new Logitech keyboard not 
realizing that it was a USB type of keyboard. I decided to hook the 
trackball up as USB also. The keyboard is fine, although at first was 
intermittent until I enabled in the BIOS for USB keyboards/mouse, which 
I had forgotten to do. The trackball however at first boot will not be 
there and I'll get an error something about unable to open USB port 2 
for whatever reason. If I unplug the transceiver and plug it back in all 
will be fine except I'll get a warning after logging in that the battery 
is low and needs to be replaced even though it's a brand new fresh 
battery. The trackball works fine after that, but of course it'll get 
erratic when I really do need to replace the battery. Am i missing 
something on the Linux side for the wireless trackball? Maybe I need to 
replace it with a wired one?

TIA
Scott C.