OK, I am holding off on installing the Oxygen8 because of this weird firmware issue, but now have gotten a bit further with a MidiSport 2x2, but not there yet. On Gentoo, I emerged the following packages: fxload hotplug ezusb2131 usbmidi When I plug in the MidiSport, I get the following in /var/log/messages: Mar 22 16:05:17 umatic1 usb.c: USB disconnect on device 00:1d.0-1 address 18 Mar 22 16:05:19 umatic1 hub.c: new USB device 00:1d.0-1, assigned address 19 Mar 22 16:05:19 umatic1 usb.c: USB device 19 (vend/prod 0x763/0x1001) is not claimed by any active driver. Mar 22 16:05:19 umatic1 /etc/hotplug/usb/ezusbmidi: missing /usr/share/usb/ezusbmidi/ezusbmidi2x2.ihx for 763/1001/1 ?? So I downloaded the firmwarehotplug sources from http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=17679 and copied firmwarehotplug-0.1/ezusb/midi/original/ezusbmidi2x2.ihx to /usr/share/usb/ezusbmidi/ and now I only get: Mar 22 16:10:33 umatic1 hub.c: new USB device 00:1d.0-1, assigned address 24 Mar 22 16:10:33 umatic1 usb.c: USB device 24 (vend/prod 0x763/0x1001) is not claimed by any active driver. lsmod reports: root 16:11:00> lsmod Module Size Used by Not tainted snd-hdsp 41292 0 snd-hwdep 5472 0 [snd-hdsp] usb-midi 18588 0 (unused) snd-intel8x0 20388 0 snd-ac97-codec 49388 0 [snd-intel8x0] snd-mpu401-uart 4304 0 [snd-intel8x0] ohci1394 27272 0 (unused) ieee1394 52292 0 [ohci1394] snd-rawmidi 15552 0 (autoclean) [snd-hdsp snd-mpu401-uart] snd-seq-device 4452 0 (autoclean) [snd-rawmidi] snd-pcm 69088 0 (autoclean) [snd-hdsp snd-intel8x0] snd-page-alloc 7380 0 (autoclean) [snd-hdsp snd-intel8x0 snd-pcm] snd-timer 17380 0 (autoclean) [snd-pcm] snd 37252 0 (autoclean) [snd-hdsp snd-hwdep snd-intel8x0 snd-ac97-codec snd-mpu401-uart snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device snd-pcm snd-timer] soundcore 4548 4 (autoclean) [usb-midi snd] What to do next? How can I get the usb-midi driver to see the MidiSport? Is there something I need to do with hotplug? thx, d. -- derek holzer ::: http://www.umatic.nl ---Oblique Strategy # 167: "Use cliches"