garry saddington wrote:

I have just done a fresh install of SuSE 9.1 on a laptop and I can't get any usb devices to work. Has anyone seen this before? regards

Do you have all of the modules loaded? Possibly on your laptop you need to load something else first. Does SuSE 9.1 come with a package called "hotplug"? If it does then make sure it is installed.