Comment 475 for bug 88746

After a lot of testing it appears that only the original release kernels work well for me.

8.04 (2.6.24-16), 8.04.1 (2.6.24-19), 8.10 (2.6.27-7) USB transfers go smoothly as long as I don't update the kernel. Every single kernel update messes up USB transfers for me. I have tried all of the Intrepid proposed and Jaunty kernel updates and none of them worked well for me including the new 2.6.28.x series.

In order to lock down the kernel so you don't see updates in the update manager, make sure you lock the versions of everything in synaptic including for versions you don't have installed for the following items.

linux-generic
linux-headers
linux-image
linux-restricted-modules

Once I locked all of these down (both installed and uninstalled), I was able to do updates without seeing any updates for the kernel.