Thanks everybody, meanwhile I'm using Helmut's patch f5685ba675449b072feab6a5391a9ef9f604bc94, which indeed fixes this problem of my oldtimer notebook. @John W.: The problem happened every time, the notebook was booted. Besides the warning message and the absent wlan interface, this computer seemed to work o.k. -- Best regards, Jörg-Volker. -- 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