I can confirm that they are recognized if plugged in before the system is started. I restarted the system while plugged in, and they show:
$ uptime 22:44:58 up 2 min, 1 user, load average: 0.35, 0.28, 0.11 $ ls -al /dev/js* lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 2005-09-08 22:48 /dev/js0 -> input/js0
I can confirm that they are recognized if plugged in before the system is
started. I restarted the system while plugged in, and they show:
$ uptime
22:44:58 up 2 min, 1 user, load average: 0.35, 0.28, 0.11
$ ls -al /dev/js*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 2005-09-08 22:48 /dev/js0 -> input/js0