Comment 42 for bug 843431

To apply the patch you need to download the attachment, and also have the latest kernel source downloaded (apt-get source linux-image-3.0.0-12-generic).
Then you would apply the patch as follows:
patch linux-3.0.0/drivers/usb/core/quirks.c < 843431.patch
and build/install the kernel as usual... if you're not familiar with kernel building you would need to look it up !
I'll just post what I did on my quad core box (I like to compile up to 4 objects concurrently to build the kernel faster), I build the kernel into image & headers deb files, which I then install with dpkg, then reboot.

cd linux-3.0.0
sudo CONCURRENCY_LEVEL=4 make-kpkg --initrd kernel-image kernel-headers
cd ..
dpkg -i linux-image-3.0.4_3.0.4-10.00.Custom_amd64.deb linux-headers-3.0.4_3.0.4-10.00.Custom_amd64.deb