Unfortunately, this system suffers from <https://launchpad.net/bugs/75052> (raid/LVM root FS), so booting any Feisty kernel is problematic, and it will not boot -386 at all 'cannot find /sbin/init' or similar (even after running scripts/local-top/mdadm from the initramfs shell).
I booted 2.6.19-7-generic, which does not crash on USB insertion of the device, and the device works fine (albeit only at 11Mb/s), once you get network-manager out the way (which is also broken wrt to this device <https://launchpad.net/bugs/72723>. Sorry not to be more helpful, -jonathan -- Feisty: zydas 1211 USB device soft lockup on CPU#0 https://launchpad.net/bugs/76599 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
