Oh great. It seems to work fine on the two machines I have running win xp (networking mode, sd storage mode and cf storage mode). I don't really know about win 2000 yet; but the last time I tried it something went wrong (I will check this out further tomorrow- i think i did something wrong).
Unfortunately, it doesn't work properly on the machine I use most- my laptop, running 2.6.8.1 linux kernel, slackware 9.1. If I plug in my z in networking mode it does the same thing I have been having trouble with on my server for almost 2 years- "device not accepting address"- it tries this twice and then gives up. Unplugging and replugging makes little difference, but at least it doesn't lock up the usb.
If I plug in my z in either sd or cf mass storage mode, it works fine, but if I unplug it and then replug it, it locks up the usb, so I can't use any other devices in that port either. lsusb locks in this state. So far (although i haven't tried much- i'm sure unloading the usb modules would work, but that may well hang) the only way to get my usb back is to restart. It only has one usb port, so I don't know if it is locking the whole usb system or just that port.
Anyone got any ideas? I don't think its anything to do with the z, but i could easily be wrong.
Thanks
Simon