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USB hubs and the new Apple keyboards
Authored by: Bassman59 on Mon, Sep 17 2007 at 2:06PM PDT

Sounds like that hub's power descriptors are broken.

In other words, it's telling the computer that it's self-powered when it's not. Since the computer thinks that the hub has a power supply, then it thinks that high-power devices (those that draw > 100 mA from the bus) are acceptable and will enumerate them (turn them on).

BTW, what's a "powered USB stick"?