<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title></title> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Basically you are at the elimination game. Pull everything from the system (hardware) and run a non smp kernel, see if you can reproduce, then reintroduce hardware till the problem comes back. You might end up stuck just buying a $10 usb 2.0 card until the next kernel rev comes out and fixes your particular weirdness. Matt R Kimber wrote: <blockquote cite="mid20050912213541.3942747e.rkimber@ntlworld.com" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">On Mon, 12 Sep 2005 16:01:24 -0400 Matt Patterson <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:matt@v8zman.com"><matt@v8zman.com></a> wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Perhaps you are experiencing the inotify bug. This is a freeze in the kernel when it gets notified of a newly inserted device. I believe the kernel boot option was "noinotify". I thought that was my problem for a while, but pinned it squarely on the pci vid card in the end. </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> Actually, Googling suggests that this was fixed in 2.6.10 - Richard </pre> </blockquote> </body> </html>