In message <20030825112226.18ba5b2f.10.50@free.fr>, Vincent writes:
>since I have flashed a new Bios revision in my Compaq presario laptop, I
>have recovered the console display at start (seems it was a font loading
>bug), but I lost the ehci controler (which was working correctly on the
>same kernel before).

Did you change kernels recently?  I have two machines which used to work
with ehci, but don't as of recently.

-s