I spent a few months USB free cause I read an errata page that said my via chipset and linux and usb were no goes. Playing with options like Force nopcia, and renaming my usb iomega burner to sr0, suddenly opened up a world of usb fuctionality for cdburner , flash memory , you name it. All I remember is mucking around with Draktools for hardware and boot options when it happened. Wish I took notes, but Ive been able to get them up and running on subsequent installs...usually tied to remaming the usb iomega cdrw... chalk one up for trial and error and obssessive mucking about. :P
