At work I have a fairly new box, the HP Pavilion a1640n. I’m running Ubuntu Feisty Fawn on it with all the latest updates. Unfortunately, none of the USB ports work, so I can’t use my USB mouse, or any external drives or any of the other countless USB devices. Clearly not a great situation to be in.
I’ve filed a [[https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/135342|bug report]] on [[http://launchpad.net|Launchpad]]. If you’re facing this same problem, please go vote on the bug and/or give additional information. If you know a fix, that would be even better.
i got my HP pavilion at http://www.consumerdepot.com and it works great for me.