feisty laptop not recognising usb stick

[Karl Goetz]

hi all,
I got given a feisty laptop which has stopped recognising usb sticks.

When i gave it to the person, usb worked fine. they say they unmounted a
usb stick (or eject, whatever the feisty GUI says), waited a few seconds
then pulled it out.
Since then its not accepted new usb sticks, and the kernel doesnt seem
to look.
ther is a few USB related errors (which i can include if wanted), which
start from just after the kernel loading until roughly just before gdm
loads.
Has anyone had an experience like this?
kk

ps.
sorry for cross post.

-- 
Karl Goetz
User of gNewSense: Free as in Freedom - http://www.gnewsense.org
Australian Ubuntu users team - http://wiki.ubuntu.com/AustralianTeam
User of Debian, The Universal Operating System - http://www.debian.org

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