Comment 4 for bug 109836

Similar problem also for me. I have a SMC2662W USB wifi adapter, with atmel chipset. When I plug-in it, the keyboard apparently hangs (but really when I unplug the device all keystrokes appear on yhe terminal windows) . I have 2 boxes: one is a Dapper Drake LTS, 2.6.15-28-k7 #1 SMP PREEMPT, the other is Feisty Fawn 2.6.20-16-generic. This behaviour was initially the same on both, even after installing the proper packages by Synaptic. After that, I tried to compile the at76c50x driver from berlios.de in the Dapper box; and after installing the driver and the firmware from the same site, all was OK. But I didn't succeed in doing the same thing on the Feisty box. First, I had compiling problems because the sources were looking for linux/config.h - but I found that this header is no more used in the latest kernels, so I commented all the concerned "include" lines
Anyway, no luck with Feisty. Apparently, the drivers in the repositories have problems, and the available sources do not compile against 2.6.20.