On Mon, Aug 02, 2004 at 09:45:02AM -0700, François Dreyfuerst wrote: > 2) Since I only have a DSL Net connection through USB modem, and no floppy > drive on this laptop anyway, I need to mount my USB memory stick. > > Evrey time I try to do it, I get something like that (hotplug is active, > usb-storage and sd_mod modules loaded a boot time) : > > >usb 1-3: new high speed USB device using address 4 (4 can be another number) > >usb 1-3: control timeout on ep0out > >usb 1-3: control timeout on ep0out > >usb 1-3: device not accepting address 4, error -110 > >and then the same goes on with 5 instead of 4 as address ...
Ok, this indicates a communications error between the USB stack and the device. I have experienced this for two different (unrelated) reasons: (1) bad cable so that the device cannot communicate reliably enough. (2) using EHCI for 2.0 support, with a 1.1 hub and the device is 1.1 too. You can check for (1) by trying the device in a different kernel or OS. You can resolve (2) by explicitly disabling the EHCI support and retrying