unable to connect mp3 player

I believe it was recognized fine in 11.0 but haven’t used it for a while

The device says either connected or switches between connected and
disconnected and will not work in either mtp or msc modes

I’m guessing the relevant line is “usb-storage: waiting for device to
settle before scanning”

below is from dmesg

usb 2-3: USB disconnect, address 33
usb 2-3: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 34
usb 2-3: configuration #128 chosen from 1 choice
scsi37 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
usb 2-3: New USB device found, idVendor=0781, idProduct=7421
usb 2-3: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
usb 2-3: Product: Sansa e270
usb 2-3: Manufacturer: SanDisk
usb 2-3: SerialNumber: 00000000-00000000-4176b387-d915fe07-00000000
usb-storage: device found at 34
usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
SFW2-OUT-ERROR IN= OUT=eth0 SRC=192.168.1.64 DST=195.135.221.130 LEN=52
TOS=0x
00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=25544 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=34805 DPT=80 WINDOW=59
RES=0x00
ACK FIN URGP=0 OPT (0101080A0217E38A5A505BC5)
SFW2-INext-DROP-DEFLT-INV IN=eth0 OUT=
MAC=00:01:02:6e:dd:af:00:0f:b3:aa:8b:ac
:08:00 SRC=195.135.221.130 DST=192.168.1.64 LEN=40 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x60
TTL=49 I
D=0 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=80 DPT=34805 WINDOW=0 RES=0x00 RST URGP=0
usb 2-3: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 34
lines 2512-2528/2528 (END)

thanks,

Suse 11.1 x64, Kde 4.2beta, Opera 10.x weekly