Well thanks Andrei for your assistance, but I suddenly had a epiphany in the middle of the night and thought I would try something radical. I had the keyboard plugged in to a USB 2.0 hub and as I said, only the keyboard was working. So I took the hub out and plugged the keyboard directly into my puter and lo and behold both the keyboard and touchpad work! Go figure, the damn hub was the problem... I will send that hub back to Amazon and get a different one along with sending a not happy customer review of it! Marc... -- <b>Computers: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the user Marc.<br> His mission: to explore strange new hardware. To seek out new software and new applications.<br> To boldly go where no Marc has gone before!<br></b> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org