Ubuntu
linux-source-2.6.22 package

  1. Bug #88746 (ehci-hcd)
  2. Comment #137

Comment 137 for bug 88746

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Stuart Vickers (sv87411) wrote : Re: USB devices are not recognized when having ehci_hcd modprobed

I have to agree with elias's comments on the 8/10/07 this is an embarrassing situation for Ubuntu. I, like so many others experience this problem and have been tracking this bug report for a long while; I mean, it has been going now for 8 months! I see little or no point in giving more information as nothing seems to being done to actually fix this problem and there's no structured mechanism to track the information provided in these bug reports; it's all pretty much just a bunch of random information.

I used to use external mass storage USB devices on my IBM laptop a lot under Windows with no issues. Those same devices on the same laptop produce the errors already reported in Ubuntu many many times above.

This one issue is giving Ubuntu and Linux in general bad press which is such a shame. This is definitely one situation where Windows and Microsoft have the upper hand.