In this case, the problem has been determined to be caused by the "laptop-mode" package. Reconfiguring it should solve the problem. If it does, this bug report can be rejected as invalid. Alan Stern -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html