I receive a kernel panic with rt2500pci built-in, but if built as a module, I can insmod it without problem. I don't have a serial console, and I tried to capture the panic with netconsole (using a different interface of course) but the panic happens immediately after rt2500pci is initialized, or in other words, too soon for netconsole. I'd rather not copy over everything unless necessary. Here's the first portion: ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:0a.0[A] -> GSI 22 (level, low) -> IRQ 18 phy0 -> rt2x00_set_chip: Info - Chipset detected - rt: 0201, rf: 0003, rev: 00000004 WARNING: at lib/kref.c:33 kref_get() [<c0229da9>] kref_get+0x3d/0x44 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html