On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 19:22 +0200, "S. Teletchéa" wrote:

> Pay attention that on some VIA-related motherboards (and may be other
> chipset makers), having the USB port with more than the 550mA will lead
> to a complete lock up of the system (this happened all the time with USB
> xDSL modems in France for instance). If you want this to be automatic,
> why not, but a proper warning should be available (added to the udev
> rule / release notes ...). The only solution to this problem is an
> external USB hub ...

Oh, fun :\ do you really mean "more than" 550mA, though? If so, it's no
problem, as Blackberries draw *exactly* 550mA.
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adamw