unreliable USB connections

[Daniel Chen]

On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 8:13 PM, Arne Goetje <arne.goetje at canonical.com> wrote:
> I have experienced this recently with my Epson scanner on Karmic with
> -updates. The device got detected and showed up in lsusb, but the
> computer couldn't talk to it, it always failed with IO Error. After
> power cycling the scanner multiple times, it worked again. This has just
> happened recently, before I was able to use the same scanner on Karmic
> without problems.

Since no one has really included any details, it would be nice to
coalesce these into a bug report. What's relevant (at minimum):

* versions of linux and udev
* affected hardware (cf. lsusb)

Best,
-Dan