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It happens to me too on Fedora Core 3. Fixed it by allowing
the machine to use its built in atmel and atmel_cs modules.
Had to get firmware in rpm form from
rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/4/idpl/
1213433/com/atmel-firmware-1.0-1.1.i586.rpm.html
Couldn't install this properly directly so upacked it and
manually dropped firmware files into /lib/firmware (as
opposed to package default of /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware)

Hope this helps.