Comment 10 for bug 543298

This is also the case in Lucid 10.4, both in my i386 and amd64 machines, 2.6.32-23-generic kernel and at least its two predecessors. I can sometimes achieve success after plugging in the device after having booted up, but often TAIL -F /VAR/LOG/MESSAGES reveals the device as being "usb 2-3: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address XXX" i.e. it is not being recognised properly when plugged in. Worth noting here that I have a TP-Link wireless PCI card installed (also an Atheros chip), that also fails to function. LSPCI reveals: "Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. Atheros AR5001X+ Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01)", so it should be fine. Neither of the two other TP Link PCI wireless cards that I have tried work either. It would seem to me that the underlying problem is to do with the rt73usb module. In all the versions of Ubuntu that I have run, I have never had any problems with atheros-based wireless devices, whether PCI cards or USB, so this is somewhat of a surprise.