In addition to comment 1647 (
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1/comments/1647 ) I'd like to
shed some additional light that may help in debugging:
http://glyphobet.net/blog/essay/140 .

>From my personal experience,  I have seen similar things happening with
the whole bunch of linux kernel USB 2.0 problems -- see e.g. comment 594
( https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-
source-2.6.20/+bug/88746/comments/594 ) for bug 88746 (
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-source-2.6.20/+bug/88746
) .

Please note that this comment was added more than three years after the initial 
bug was filed!
( After living for several years with this bug, and a lot of digging, I have 
finally realized how complex the situation was, and for me it seems to have 
almost gone -- two more years later and with a backported kernel, but from a 
new user's point of view -- no one even have _tried_ to explain all the 
difficulties and intrinsic details for USB 2.0 support in the linux kernel! All 
we've got from Canonical was "declined / won't fix" )

As a more general thing -- if then, back in the times of 7.10, the installation 
procedure for Ubuntu to an average computer looked like "click a few times" -- 
then around 9.04 it was more like "click a few times and then fix one or two 
minor things". 
Now it is a nightmare ( "plug and pray", "and prepare to spend from days to 
weeks on the forums, digging into the problem(s), testing patches, etc" ). 
I have stopped even trying anything but LTS releases long ago, and still wait 
for every next upgrade with fear and trembling.  

To conclude, Ubuntu is (imho) still the best linux for desktop, but with
growing number of features etc, it's getting less and less stable, and
without admitting that I doubt that this bug would ever be fixed.

PS. Got multiple "timeout errors" while trying to submit this comment.

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