-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Ok, now the other issue with my upgrade in place (not a clean install) is a usb issue. Ok, so I have my usb keyboard and mouse plugged in, as per the previous setup. After the initial setup no mouse or keyboard, or promise/hde there for now. So setup fails at the confirmation point after the setup and stops before installation actually begins. Well, the lack of the install going beyond the setup before actually laying down the software is do to the promise card - which I solve. Now, after solving this I get the software to install and everything looks cool until first reboot and no usb = no mouse or keyboard, and even worse it hangs at usb recognition. So, go to bios turn off usb ports (all 4x2, yes two 1.0 ports with 2 inputs and the same for the 2 2.0 ports). Plug in the kbd and mouse in the ps2 ports and off I go. So, today I think I'll go and get this set up -> bios ->usb ports on (just started with ports 1 and 2 = v1.0) and hangs. Hit magicsysreq and it mentions something about unrecognized keycodes at blah blah ports. So, I think maybe it's reading an old config file and hiccupping because it isn't getting input from the kbk and/or mouse. So, plug them in and see = hang at hwscan hotplug ... usb... again. Try turning on legacy support = no. Try turning on emulate 60/64 addressing whatever stuff - no, hang. Turn various versions on and off = no go regardless of what combintations, ports, devices, kernel boot parametes (usbcore usb-uhci, or usb-ohci, hwscan=-c03:*:*) zero, zip, zilch. So, a figure I'll post and see if anyone had any suggestions. Now the good part! I go to gather info and notice that every source I check on my machine says ther actually devices hooked up to the usb ports and the indeed the usb ports are there. So, run command "jscalibrator" and sure enough it's working fine! Huh? The ports are turned off in the bios. It's shut down at the source - or so I thought. Hmmmm, how is the OS reading the usb ports and sending/recieving bits... bytes,... ? It's supposedly disabled in the bios settings! Anyone have any suggestions how to get this enable at boot. I guess I could go into the sysconfig editor and turn the hardware scan for usb to no and then enable them in the bios. But I'd like to hear from anyone that might have some insight or different idea or suggestionions. TIA, Curtis (aka confused). -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2-rc1-SuSE (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+uajg7WVLiDrqeksRAkt8AKDBv+djL0+vTFmZHuYwyxmrldCVwQCgj6tH /g5RrM3YdVch980134nxRUk= =x7uj -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----