> I made this change and ran > $ make modules > # make modules_install
> and rebooted. Didn't seem to make any difference for my situation. The > timeout messages still happen -- and about the same rate. Sorry not to reply in the same thread: I had deleted everything before realizing that you had not mentioned make config or make xconfig. You are sure that you had set CONFIG_USB_LONG_TIMEOUT? Otherwise you would have recompiled exactly the same code as before. ael