I have a series of machines that I am building for work that have usb card readers. When I boot them I get a long series of messages:

...
[ 2347.768419] hub 1-6:1.0: unable to enumerate USB device on port 6
[ 2347.968178] usb 1-6.6: new full-speed USB device number 10 using ehci_hcd
[ 2352.552020] usb 1-6.6: device not accepting address 10, error -32
[ 2352.568421] hub 1-6:1.0: unable to enumerate USB device on port 6
[ 2352.768179] usb 1-6.6: new full-speed USB device number 12 using ehci_hcd
[ 2357.352033] usb 1-6.6: device not accepting address 12, error -32
...

On some older machines this only takes a few attempts before the card reader finally accepts an address, while on newer machines it can take many minutes. Changing hardware is not an option and plugging the usb card reader into a different port is only an option for the older manchines. This was a problem under 11.04 and I am now running the 12.04 beta and its still happening.

Is there something I can do in the software (a udev rule perhaps?) that would fix this?

Any advice appreciated. I'm happy to provide more details if you need them.