cannot use microsoft intellimouse 1.2A ps/2 compatible

can anyone help me. i'm in the process of installing the official binary-i386 version 2.2_r3 of debian, but when i get to the part of configuring xf86 and i'm trying to configure the mouse wich is a microsoft intellimouse 1.2A ps/2 compatible. i've tried different cconfigurations such as (1)

3com NIC card configuration

Hi, i'm a newbie at Debian and i'm trying to install it now on a dell computer but i'm running into the following problem: i'm in the process of installing debian linux 2.2.12 through the cd installation which came with the "Learning Debian GNU/Linux" book published by O'Reilly. Once i get to