> yesterday i updated my suse 9.3 system with the "new" kernel 2.6.12 from > scratch with copying the .config file with zcat /proc/config.gz > .config > now, there is no hotpluggung via usb neither pcmcia . On the old system, If suse uses udev (which I think it does) you'll have to upgrade that to at least v058. The 2.6.12-kernel removed something in sysfs that the older udev expect to find. /peder