I would like to address an issue that has been around for a while now. The wireless mouse's wheel speed is abnormally fast on Ubuntu (as well as Mac Osx, as I have read) and the way to fix this temporarily is to unplug and plug the wireless adapter.

A solution for this have been asked for in various forum topics on Ubuntu forums and also askubuntu. However the best solution for this is to re-plug the wireless adapter for the mouse. This fixes the mouse wheel speed until the next reboot.

My question is, what can be done to make this permanent? Can a shell script be written, or firstly what can be causing this?

If you could give me some ideas on why this problem is occurring I would happily write a shell script for it... (I am thinking if this is fixed by a simple re-plug of the adapter, maybe a shell script to disable device and re-enable it or something like that... could do the trick)

I appreciate any discussions and ideas on the subjects.

Here are some already discussed topics on the same subject that I've researched:

Mouse wheel jumpy on scrolling

Mouse wheel scrolling too fast

There's a lot more than that on the net, all of them ends with re-plug solution.