Can you unload the ehci_hcd driver and see if this helps? It looks like brltty is causing some USB resets, or is resetting the device...I'm not sure this is a kernel bug, because it may be brltty doing something wrong to cause these resets.
** Changed in: linux-source-2.6.20 (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Needs Info -- USB braille display no longer starts with brltty https://launchpad.net/bugs/80892 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs