Hi, I haven't seen anything about this on LKML yet (via marc.theaimsgroup.com) but it might have been reported. This is on boot, prior to mounting root fs. EHCI usb is used, reproducable on 2 types of hardware, mail me if you want more information. PS. CC since i'm not subbed. DS. usb 3-2.3: new full speed USB device using address 6 Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000004 printing eip: c029ff5b *pde = 00000000 Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT CPU: 0 EIP: 0060:[] Not tainted EFLAGS: 00010246 (2.6.5) EIP is at usb_disable_interface+0xb/0x40 eax: f76f3400 ebx: 00000000 ecx: c1b70000 edx: f7bcf080 esi: 00000001 edi: 00000000 ebp: f76f3400 esp: c1b71d7c ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068 Process khubd (pid: 5, threadinfo=c1b70000 task=c1a3e040) Stack: f76f3400 00000001 00000002 f7780770 c02a0183 00000001 00000002 00000001 00000000 00000000 00001388 00000000 f7bcf080 00000000 f7780680 f7780738 f74a0ec0 c02d4e90 ddc5892a 0000000a 00000018 00000003 00000002 00000001 Call Trace: [] usb_set_interface+0x93/0x150 [] hci_usb_probe+0x210/0x450 [] usb_probe_interface+0x53/0x70 [] bus_match+0x32/0x60 [] device_attach+0x3a/0x90 [] sysfs_create_group+0x48/0x80 [] bus_add_device+0x54/0x90 [] device_add+0x94/0x110 [] usb_set_configuration+0x1be/0x250 [] usb_new_device+0x22e/0x3a0 [] printk+0x11d/0x170 [] hub_port_connect_change+0x159/0x250 [] hub_events+0x289/0x300 [] hub_thread+0x2b/0xe0 [] default_wake_function+0x0/0x10 [] hub_thread+0x0/0xe0 [] kernel_thread_helper+0x5/0x18 Code: 80 7b 04 00 74 1d 31 f6 8b 43 0c 47 0f b6 54 30 02 83 c6 14 -- Ian Kumlien -- http://pomac.netswarm.net