While goggling, I have found that there are many more unhappy With UDEV then there are that clam UDEV is good. With lots of internet articles, man pages and examples, No one can figure why one Wireless Modem works and another one does not. I can plug my Dell modem into Ubuntu, but I must Load USBSERIAL by manual command. The command is ignored if USBSERIAL is in Use. So I must unplug every device that uses USB-serial And then install my modem. Then load USB-serial. Then install my other devices. When Microsoft can run three of these modems at the same time, Do you feel a little embarrassed? Ron -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-hotplug" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html