Hello. I'm a hopeless newbie. I have SuSE 8.2 Personal. The system was updated less than 24 hours ago. My floortop has two USB orifices in its front. I've just stuck a cheapo "V-TEC V-Drive USB Flash Drive" http://www.v-tec.com.tw/ memory card into one of them. I heard a jolly beeping sound. Er, now what? YaSTCC's "hardware" tab has nothing about "USB", "removable media", "other memory devices", etc. etc. YaST2's "Hardware Information" probe reaches "14%" and "USB" and thereupon either hangs or stops to think for an extraordinarily long time. Hitting "Abort" does nothing, so I hit Crtl-Alt-Esc (I'm making a lot of use of this key combination these days). http://sdb.suse.de/en/sdb/html/usb_devices.html "Setting Up USB Support and USB Devices" is only about older versions of SuSE. The maker of the memory card says it's Linux compatible (whatever that means, if anything) and offers a PDF of instructions that don't mention Linux. I thought I could at least play a CD on this machine. But now, although I'm not aware of having made any changes to the system, KsCD refuses to load and I can't even play CDs while I enjoy spending thirty minutes attempting to do things that took mere seconds in MS-DOS. Ah well. . . . Oh, hello, hitting Ctrl-Alt-Esc after a second abortive attempt at a hardware probe brings up ProcessTable -- sometimes it does this, usually it doesn't; I've no idea why it works differently at different times -- which tells me that seven processes of KsCD are running. I kill the lot. (But afterwards, KsCD still won't load.)