unreliable USB connections

[Mackenzie Morgan]

On Friday 22 January 2010 6:08:58 pm Bryce Harrington wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 03:57:56PM +0000, Jonathan Riddell wrote:
> > I'm getting reports of USB devices not reliably being recognised when
> > plugged in by the system in Karmic.  Has anyone seen this?
> 
> There have been reports against linux of problems recognizing USB
> devices going way back.  There seem to be several patterns:
> 
>   * Not recognized on boot, but unplug/replug and then it works

In particular what we've been hearing in #kubuntu-devel is that devices won't 
be recognized on boot but then after 6-10 attempts at unplug/replug, they'll 
work.

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Mackenzie Morgan
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