[castalla]

I tried the edimax dongle (working 100% in 4 alpha) in a Cubieboard using the same network interface settings as alpha 4 - worked fine in Debian.

I tried the same interface settings in alpha 5 - same issues as before - locking screens (I tried to change the International settings .. it kept locking up as I scrolled through the country list - gave up after 5 reboots to reach Khyrgistan! I was aiming for GB). Shutdown takes more than 1 min, and wifi still on.

I'll try again tomorrow when new tp-link dongle arrives .... must say I'm not hopeful it'll make a difference. There are too many confounding variables: edimax dongle, Samsung cec, xbian, xbmc, kernel, etc.