Hi Gbenga, > Please check other drives on FC5 it could be a compatibility issue. > We > need to eliminate compatibility.. There is no another hard drive except the floppy. > or remove the other usb device and > leave only the drive ...this means you would have to use another type > of mouse. Replaced the wireless mouse with an USB mouse. Restarted the PC # ps -ef | grep usb root 2400 2333 0 17:10 pts/3 00:00:00 grep usb # dmesg | grep usb usbcore: registered new driver usbfs usbcore: registered new driver hub usbcore: registered new driver libusual usbcore: registered new driver hiddev usbcore: registered new driver usbhid drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.6:USB HID core driver SELinux: initialized (dev usbfs, type usbfs), uses genfs_contexts usb usb1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice [<ffffffff802a8d8c>] (usb_hcd_irq+0x0/0x50) usb usb2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice usb 2-1: new low speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 2 usb 2-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice input: USB HID v1.00 Mouse [Cypress Sem PS2/USB Browser Combo Mouse] on usb-0000:00:0b.0-1 usb 1-8: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 3 usb 1-8: device not accepting address 3, error -110 usb 1-8: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 4 usb 1-8: device not accepting address 4, error -110 usb 1-8: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 5 usb 1-8: device not accepting address 5, error -110 usb 1-8: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 6 usb 1-8: device not accepting address 6, error -110 Problem still there. B.R. SL