Re: firmware loading failure for AR3011 (0cf3:3000 or 0cf3:3005 ?)

Inexplicably yesterday's (and the day before) Debian testing snapshot
seems to have the problem fixed!

I tested kernel 3.2.x and 3.1.x. udev still is at version 175.

I'm completely ignorant to what change in Debian testing led to the
fixing of this problem. I guess I should have tested everyday, for
every round of updates to testing, but I lacked the time.

I'm attaching a dmesg, though it shows nothing of interest AFAIK.

I hope this issue doesn't come back to haunt me. I'll upgrade to
wheezy on this machine soon so I can monitor everything more closely
instead of relying on live images.

I finally installed wheezy by default on the laptop... it ended up
being rather hard...
Anyways the problem is back. I don't know what change in the Usb
images I tested days ago may have resulted in a fix.

I've tested the most recent Debian kernel -> basically 3.2.5 and also 3.3.0-rc3
Both throw the same error. I'm attaching dmesg from 3.3.0-rc3, but
there's absolutely no new information.
Should I enable the debugging symbols to test if there's more output?
my build had them disabled, otherwise the kernel image was huge.

Andres