=> Reboot into 2.2.20, and everything works. I since suspected that there is a => clash with the usb controllers : I've actually for the first time noticed a clash between the irq's of the graphics card and the network card, so just to give a better picture, I've included here, the full lspci output. I still can't get my usb interface to work either with my logitech usb mouse. I tried both the ohci and usb2 interfaces, but no luck. Nothing gets picked up. lspci -vvv output : 00:00.0 Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]: Unknown device 0655 Subsystem: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]: Unknown device 0655 Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort+ >SERR- <PERR- Latency: 32 Region 0: Memory at f0000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64M] Capabilities: [c0] AGP version 3.0 Status: RQ=31 SBA+ 64bit- FW- Rate=x1 Command: RQ=0 SBA- AGP- 64bit- FW- Rate=<none> 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5591/5592 AGP (prog-if 00 [Normal decode]) Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- Status: Cap- 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- Latency: 64 Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=32 I/O behind bridge: 0000f000-00000fff Memory behind bridge: f4000000-f5ffffff Prefetchable memory behind bridge: e8000000-efffffff BridgeCtl: Parity- SERR+ NoISA+ VGA+ MAbort- >Reset- FastB2B- 00:02.0 ISA bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 85C503/5513 (rev 04) Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle+ MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- Status: Cap- 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- Latency: 0 00:02.5 IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5513 [IDE] (prog-if 80 [Master]) Subsystem: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS5513 EIDE Controller (A,B step) Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- Status: Cap- 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- Latency: 128 Region 4: I/O ports at f000 [size=16] 00:02.7 Multimedia audio controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS7012 PCI Audio Accelerator (rev a0) Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology: Unknown device a002 Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- Latency: 32 (13000ns min, 2750ns max) Interrupt: pin C routed to IRQ 18 Region 0: I/O ports at d800 [size=256] Region 1: I/O ports at dc00 [size=128] Capabilities: [48] Power Management version 2 Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=55mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot+,D3cold+) Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME- 00:03.0 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 7001 (rev 0f) (prog-if 10 [OHCI]) Subsystem: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 7001 Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- Status: Cap- 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- Latency: 32 (20000ns max), cache line size 08 Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 20 Region 0: Memory at f7001000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K] 00:03.1 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 7001 (rev 0f) (prog-if 10 [OHCI]) Subsystem: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 7001 Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- Status: Cap- 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- Latency: 32 (20000ns max), cache line size 08 Interrupt: pin B routed to IRQ 21 Region 0: Memory at f7002000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K] 00:03.2 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 7001 (rev 0f) (prog-if 10 [OHCI]) Subsystem: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 7001 Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- Status: Cap- 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- Latency: 32 (20000ns max), cache line size 08 Interrupt: pin C routed to IRQ 22 Region 0: Memory at f7003000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K] 00:03.3 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]: Unknown device 7002 (prog-if 20) Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology: Unknown device 5004 Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- Latency: 32 (20000ns max), cache line size 08 Interrupt: pin D routed to IRQ 23 Region 0: Memory at f7004000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K] Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2 Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=375mA PME(D0+,D1-,D2-,D3hot+,D3cold+) Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME- 00:0c.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139 (rev 10) Subsystem: Unknown device 4554:434e Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- Latency: 32 (8000ns min, 16000ns max) Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 16 Region 0: I/O ports at e000 [size=256] Region 1: Memory at f7005000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256] Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2 Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1+,D2+,D3hot+,D3cold-) Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME- Capabilities: [60] Vital Product Data 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 0281 (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA]) Subsystem: LeadTek Research Inc.: Unknown device 2931 Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- Status: Cap+ 66Mhz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- Latency: 32 (1250ns min, 250ns max) Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 16 Region 0: Memory at f4000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M] Region 1: Memory at e8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M] Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled] [size=128K] Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 2 Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-) Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME- Capabilities: [44] AGP version 3.0 Status: RQ=31 SBA+ 64bit- FW+ Rate=x1,x2 Command: RQ=0 SBA- AGP- 64bit- FW- Rate=<none> - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html