Hi Fogcat,

do you have a multi-chip reader permanently connected?
If so, does removing the reader fix the problem?

I think this is worth a new discussion thread, to find out how to debug this problem. It stops me from using Knoppix, which I like. Ubuntu doesn't have the problem, which is hard to fathom because the kernel is almost identical.

I have spent a few days playing around with the startup file linuxrc, and there doesn't seem to be anything wrong with it, apart from a very minor issue I noticed - there is a "nousb2" option that is effectively nullified by the fact that the text matches "nousb" and therefore disables all USB. This is not the problem here, though.

cheers,