No.  Three reasons why that diagnosis fails.

One, the hardware has worked with all previous grmls.

Two, the same bug cropped up before 0.9-7 with certain dev releases.  There is
some kind of grml design issue involved that reappears now and then.  The
hardware has not changed.

Three, other Linux distros using the same kernel versions have no problems.

The problem could be in udev rules or similar.  I don't know.