When connecting any usb stick to my thinkpad ubuntu 10.10 does not recognize them. I don't see anything on the desktop.

the output of "dmesg | tail -n10" gives me:

[ 1965.696388] hub 1-0:1.0: unable to enumerate USB device on port 1
[ 1965.884537] hub 1-0:1.0: unable to enumerate USB device on port 1
[ 1966.072503] hub 1-0:1.0: unable to enumerate USB device on port 1
[ 1966.260349] hub 1-0:1.0: unable to enumerate USB device on port 1
[ 1966.506227] usb 1-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 9
[ 1966.572375] hub 1-0:1.0: unable to enumerate USB device on port 1
[ 1966.760379] hub 1-0:1.0: unable to enumerate USB device on port 1
[ 1966.948358] hub 1-0:1.0: unable to enumerate USB device on port 1
[ 1967.136335] hub 1-0:1.0: unable to enumerate USB device on port 1
[ 1967.325423] hub 1-0:1.0: unable to enumerate USB device on port 1

When connecting my usb scanner to the same port:

[ 2008.480135] usb 1-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 65
[ 2008.548389] hub 1-0:1.0: unable to enumerate USB device on port 1
[ 2008.736786] hub 1-0:1.0: unable to enumerate USB device on port 1
[ 2008.924379] hub 1-0:1.0: unable to enumerate USB device on port 1
[ 2009.112348] hub 1-0:1.0: unable to enumerate USB device on port 1
[ 2009.300443] hub 1-0:1.0: unable to enumerate USB device on port 1
[ 2009.488536] hub 1-0:1.0: unable to enumerate USB device on port 1
[ 2009.732180] usb 1-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 71
[ 2014.796299] hub 1-0:1.0: unable to enumerate USB device on port 1
[ 2018.000128] usb 2-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 3

And ubuntu 10.10 recognizes that scanner.

So: What can i do to see my usb stick?

BTW: on my other Thinkpad running fedora 14 it works perfectly...

Cheers -Peter