Comment 317 for bug 85488

@jengel: Well if the code _appears_ to do that, then we can probably work with that until the fix comes out and/or people tell us to do differently.

@SilverLoz: Thank you very much for trying our suggestions.

As stated above, I wasn't expecting the boot-time flag to work in 2.6.20 (a.k.a. Feisty kernels) simply because it seems the patch to add that functionality appeared in 2.6.21. Knowing helps, though. The boot-time flag _should_ work in Gutsy, which uses 2.6.22... at least in theory. Would it be possible for you (or someone else with a USB device who is affected by this problem) to download a Gusty *buntu Tribe ISO, burn it to a CD-R/RW, and then try appending "usbcore.autosuspend=-1" to the kernel command line before scanning from the LiveCD environment? (Once I get the ISO downloaded myself I'll try and write up more detailed instructions, but I actually haven't tried Gutsy yet, so I'm not fully familiar with what changes (particularly interface changes), if any, are currently in Gusty.)