I'm using SuSE 8.1 since today. But I'm having some problems booting. When the boot process reaches the hotplug part (hotplug start [net pci usb....) the machine stops for about 5 to 10 minutes! In the system log there is this entry: linux kernel: usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout So the problem looks very similar to the one discribed in the SuSE support database on: http://sdb.suse.de/en/sdb/html/usb80.html I have edited /etc/sysconfig/kernel which now contains the line: INITRD_MODULES="jbd ext3 ide-scsi usbcore usb-uhci" Then I've done mk_initrd, and I'm using Grub so I skipped the lilo part. My fstab now reads: usbdevfs /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs defaults 0 0 and I have set HOTPLUG_USB_USE_USBMODULES="yes" in /etc/sysconfig/hotplug (which then takes care of the sleep 3 in the usb.agent). But as you guess, this has no effect. I still get the same messages. What could be wrong? (I'm using the Asus K7M mainboard) Kind regards, Bram Platel