Has anyone managed to get the Linksys WUSB v2.6 working?

Has anyone had success in getting the Linksys WUSB v2.6 working?

So far I have had only limited success. I used the Atmel drivers which came
with Mandrake 9.1, and they work some of the time, however I always have
problems on bootup. 

These include:
 - Freezing at the Checking Hardware stage at bootup
 - Kernel Panics
 - Losing the network card, ie: eth0 just disappears (doing ifconfig shows
only lo), if I try unplugging it and plugging it back in with Linux booted,
then the computer fully freezes (with the keyboard lights flashing) and I
have to do a hard reboot.

It can take me up to 3 boots just to get to the desktop with a working
network card. All the hard rebooting is probably playing havoc with the
file system as well, I keep having to check it at startup.

So does anyone have any suggestions as to what I might try to fix this?

Any ideas/advice will be much appreciated.

Thanks,

Luke