Got the confirmation that the patch for minstrel indeed does something good to me, both on the ath5k and rt73usb side. The code path seems to be trigered only in special circumstances in my configuration but the printk did fire on both ends after a while. Richard -- 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