Comment 1 for bug 211760

Same problem here: it started after a upgrade to hardy

[ 40.281880] usb 4-1: device not accepting address 15, error -32
[ 40.393687] usb 4-6: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 16
[ 40.505488] usb 4-6: device descriptor read/64, error -32
[ 40.721843] usb 4-6: device descriptor read/64, error -32
[ 40.936775] usb 4-6: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 17
[ 41.048591] usb 4-6: device descriptor read/64, error -32
[ 41.264165] usb 4-6: device descriptor read/64, error -32
[ 41.479786] usb 4-6: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 18
[ 41.887092] usb 4-6: device not accepting address 18, error -32
[ 41.998884] usb 4-6: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 19

I found out that for a work around you can do:

sudo modprobe -r ehci_hcd

Usb drives will mount, but they are slow. I guess this is usb 1.0 speed, but i have no idea