modprobe question

[Hugo Vanwoerkom <hvw59601@care2.com>]

Hi!

I just dist-upgraded a sarge partition.

Now the hid module for the usb mice will not load.

If you do "modprobe hid" he says "cannot find keybdev which is needed by 
hid".

Then if I do insmod /lib/<blah..blah>/hid.o it gets loaded and the mice 
can be used.

Sure enough when I do "modprobe -c" it shows:

<snip>
# Above
above hid keybdev mousedev
<snip>

I cannot find keybdev anywhere in the 2.4.22 kernel that I am using, 
except for traces in the documenation, but nothing in .config

Neither can I find where he gets his "above" information:
grepping through /lib or /etc yields nothing: I cannot find it in 
modutils or depmod.

I get around the problem by starting a script that does the insmod 
before gpm and gdm get started so they find their mice, but that is 
absurd of course.

Where does modprobe get his information about that above statement?

Thanks!

Hugo.