Just a quick update on this issue. I have come to the conclusion that is indeed NOT a kernel driver issue. After removing the cruft and just going the manual setup route for the complete bisect I was never once able to repeat the behavior I had expirienced before. That was not till i tried using wicd again. I have no reported this problem to the appropriate bug tracker. Sorry for wasting your precious time, I really do appreciate all your responses and hard work! -- 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