The bug, as mentioned above is present in 2.6.30 as well, though with a slightly different error message, but the with same result - failure. With latest compat-wiereless versions installed, when the zd1211 dongle is plugged, an wlanX interface is being initialized, but when 'ifconfig wlanX up' is issued, the cursor hangs for about 1 minute and driver fails to load the firmware, despite the fact that the fw is installed and working with the default kernel drivers and drivers from compat-wireless from December. LOG: zd1211rw 5-1:1.0: phy1 usb 5-1: firmware: requesting zd1211/zd1211b_ub usb 5-1: Could not load firmware file zd1211/zd1211b_ub. Error number -2 zd1211rw 5-1:1.0: couldn't load firmware. Error number -2 -- 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