Comment 20 for bug 20465

(In reply to comment #19)
> (In reply to comment #17)
> > david: if you do
> >
> > dpkg-reconfigure linux-image-`uname -r`
> >
> > and reboot, do you get /dev/input/mice then?
>
> No :(
>
> I have applied the command and rebooted with no luck... still have to do the
> link manually.
>

Did you try "udevstart" before creating the link manually?