<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt">Naturaj,<br><div><br>First of all, thanks to everyone who responded.<br><br>It seems that one of the older kernels worked just fine. The problem went away, the kernel mods went in, the problem re-surfaced. I got to mods from Josh. Here's the bug on the RedHat bugzilla: <br><h3 class="details hidefocus" tabindex="-1"><a href="http://36ohk6dgmcd1n-c.c.yom.mail.yahoo.net/om/api/1.0/openmail.app.invoke/36ohk6dgmcd1n/9/1.0.35/us/en-US/view.html/0#bn=1.0.35&.lang=en-US&.intl=us&rtl=0&proxyhost=us.mg6.mail.yahoo.com&sig=fb4f72e87dda62bda856b4cf8d910365&vid=om_default_view_id_36ohk6dgmcd1n-message_render_1331695903329&app=36ohk6dgmcd1n&mailver=neo&crumb=B.NaMsOogL6&cb=1331695903330" title="Click to search for messages with same subject" data-action="search" class="">[Bug 663186] USB disconnects</a></h3>Right
after that I switched to FC16 then went to FC16 x86_64 and have had the problem, to a more or lesser extent, since then.<br><br>George...<br><br></div><div>"It's not what you know that hurts you, It's what you know that ain't so." Will Rogers... Will would say, "STIFF THE FED"!!!</div></div></body></html>