Quote Originally Posted by Gr-R
Ive looked over the specs on this board at Asus, and it looks like a great board for a home Win7 machine with great graphics capablilities.
With that said, I'm unsure it would make a good Linux based storage platform.
There does seem to be a bios update for linux on this board.

Are you using this controller:
MarvellŪ 88SE6111
Marvell 88SE91xx Adapter - BIOS Version 0.0.0.1012

Yes I noticed there have been several more recent BIOS revisions, (it is currently using rev. 0503), although I don't see anything in the revisions specifically relating the Linux. Although if flashing the BIOS is the only course of action left I'll have to get back to you on the results of that.

another thing I just noticed, removing the nousb2 string does actually make the keyboard work after the error, as I can enter characters into the prompt right below. however if I don't remove it the keyboard no longers works. But either way the error remains.

Thank again for the help.