I'm not sure if this should report to the upstream kernel, want to know any of you have same experiances. Since last kernel update, when i boot my laptop to the desktop, the wifi dead while network manager trying associate to the AP, can't build any connection. I check dmesg at once: wlan0: authenticate with 00:25:86:75:30:06 (try 1) wlan0: authenticated wlan0: associate with 00:25:86:75:30:06 (try 1) wlan0: RX AssocResp from 00:25:86:75:30:06 (capab=0x431 status=0 aid=2) wlan0: associated ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): wlan0: link becomes ready wlan0: no IPv6 routers present ata1.00: configured for UDMA/133 ata1: EH complete EXT4-fs (sda5): re-mounted. Opts: commit=0 EXT4-fs (sda7): re-mounted. Opts: commit=0 fuse init (API version 7.14) Bluetooth: RFCOMM TTY layer initialized Bluetooth: RFCOMM socket layer initialized Bluetooth: RFCOMM ver 1.11 lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions irq 17: nobody cared (try booting with the "irqpoll" option) Pid: 5134, comm: cairo-dock Tainted: P 2.6.35-ARCH #1 Call Trace: [<c12e64dd>] ? printk+0x18/0x1b [<c1097037>] __report_bad_irq.clone.1+0x27/0x90 [<c1095b94>] ? handle_IRQ_event+0x44/0x1a0 [<c10971f2>] note_interrupt+0x152/0x190 [<c1097d0b>] handle_fasteoi_irq+0x9b/0xc0 [<c1005d68>] handle_irq+0x18/0x30 [<c1005a47>] do_IRQ+0x47/0xc0 [<c1106fc4>] ? sys_poll+0x54/0xd0 [<c1003d30>] common_interrupt+0x30/0x38 [<c12e0000>] ? detect_extended_topology+0x7d/0x182 handlers: [<fa3eb1a0>] (ath_isr+0x0/0x1f0 [ath9k]) Disabling IRQ #17 No probe response from AP 00:25:86:75:30:06 after 500ms, disconnecting. cfg80211: Calling CRDA to update world regulatory domain wlan0: authenticate with 00:25:86:75:30:06 (try 1) wlan0: authenticate with 00:25:86:75:30:06 (try 2) wlan0: authenticate with 00:25:86:75:30:06 (try 3) wlan0: authentication with 00:25:86:75:30:06 timed out Oh, a crash track, and IRQ #17(to the wireless?) is disabled, then wlan no more reply to any request to associatings. Acroding to the log, the wireless work the first time it associated to my AP, this is done by the /etc/rc.d/network, i configured in rc.conf. the second time it associate is when entered the desktop, network-manager begin to control the netwok stuff. then the ath9k module crashed. Reboot the system won't help, only turn out that system can't find my wireless. I have to compeletely shutdown the conputer, unplug power and battery, then boot again, and maybe run into a normal situaiton, none of above happend. -- Arch Linuxer, Pythoner, Geek --> Blog: http://apt-blog.net