> I can only speak for myself. I haven't had any USB weirdness (yet). > Therefore, not having the problem, and not seeing enough to let me > have any idea of the source of your problem, I just couldn't > comment. I suspect that many of the others are in that same place. > No one can fix what is not broke, and on our systems there don't > appear to be any problems (yet). I see your point. Bummer. The trouble is that the way I have things set up, I cannot use those computers without using USBs because I travel a lot and switch between computers a lot. My e-mail is all on a USB thumb drive, and I found out last night there is no way (I can find) to use that on the computer. Even when I use the proper device address (shown on the laptop's FC6 for the thumb drive) /dev/sda1 and /dev/sda5, I cannot manually mount a thumb drive. I can mount only an external hard drive manually. My thumb drive and multi-card reader cannot be found. Basically, this means I cannot use my desktop. You said that you do not see enough to see the source of the problem. Is there anything I can do to search out the possibilities? Thanks so much for your comments. It is nice to hear from somebody.