Alan Stern writes: > > There must be _some_ difference. Have you tried running the script > under strace? > Aha! I found the culprit. I went comparing every ting on the 2 machines and they are identical except for one thing: the failing machine is running NetworkManager instead of plain old network.... Apparently NetworkManager is messing with the tty settings. Yet another reason to turn it off. Sorry I wasted everyones time with this. -- Bill -- 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