unreliable USB connections

[Mackenzie Morgan]

On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 2:58 AM, Andy Rabagliati <andyr at wizzy.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Jan 2010, Stefan Bader wrote:
>
>> 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?
>> >
>> > Jonathan
>> >
>> I think I've seen one or two bug reports (though not got around to get to them
>> debugged). Never seen something like this on machines I could lay my hands on.
>
> I often suspect power issues for USB drives that have no separate power connection.

The case Jonathan is not specific to USB drives.  It's USB in general.
 One person reported that they need to unplug/replug their keyboard
6-10 times before it is recognized.

-- 
Mackenzie Morgan