Comment 31 for bug 54273

Confirmed controller handoff problems between ehci_hcd & uhci_hcd causing

device descriptor read/64, error -71
device not accepting address 2, error -71

Intrepid kernel 2.6.27-3 seems to have corrected the error on this system.

error 110 looks to be a hardware connection issue, from what I've been reading in other website posts while searching for error 71. But defiantly give Intrepid a try before switching cable/ports and cold boots.