> As long as probing fails, I doubt that my issue is firmware > related... I was not sure that probing failed for you. I saw an URB submit error. If usb8xxx.ko and libertas.ko get loaded, then it might be a wrong firmware. When the USB driver loads, it first uses URBs to send a helper firmware to the card. Then this helper firmware get's started. And then it sends again URBs to the card, e.g. for setup stuff. Now if the helper firmware is bogus and doesn't accept the URBs to download the real firmware ... If probing fails and udev doesn't even load usb8xxx.ko, then you have an USB problem and the wireless mailing list might not be of much help to you. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html