In addition to the patches from earlier that restore the emi62m firmware loader to function (and reinstates the correct bitstream.HEX file for the device), I've extracted updated firmware from the last (to my knowledge) free (beer) software update provided by eMagic. The update was labelled firmware 2.2 and the updater was for MacOSX 10.2.3 PPC. I noticed that the previous round of firmware loader fixes hasn't made it into any of the test kernels yet (or has it and I missed it?) So I've included the loader fixes to date and the firmware update into a single patch that works on stable kernel releases 2.6.27 up to at least 2.6.32.2. That said--- The licensing boilerplate included with this 'free software update' from eMagic may or may not allow eventual kernel inclusion; I've always been a little surprised the original 1.0 firmware as used in the current in-kernel driver was acceptably licensed. Even if not, this update is undeniably useful to anyone who has one of these devices and so I've made it into one big patch that can perhaps be unofficially 'helped along' to those folks wo could use it. The firmware update information includes various vague statements of 'improves latency and performance', but the biggest thing I notice is that it has cured several minor but annoying bugs in the 6|2m, like the fact that sampling always starts with neither analog nor digital input actually internally selected/working and you have to flip the physical switch on the front of the unit to wake it up every time you begin recording... The all-in-one patch is large and so stored here: http://web.mit.edu/xiphmont/Public/emi/emi-firmware-update.patch ...and also wrote a longer blog post featuring both patches here: http://xiphmont.livejournal.com/46858.html If you prefer just the new .HEX files, let me know. Cheers, Monty