Doh! The problem appears to be that someone broke off the plastic sheath that covers the top of the contacts on that usb port. Without that tab of plastic, usb plugs apparently can short across the free standing contacts. Jack -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines