Hi John, On Tue, 2009-07-14 at 21:25 -0700, John Ranson wrote: > [ 4.252445] iwlagn 0000:03:00.0: Tunable channels: 11 802.11bg, 13 > 802.11a channels > [ 4.252556] iwlagn 0000:03:00.0: irq 30 for MSI/MSI-X > [ 4.252945] iwlagn 0000:03:00.0: Failed to register hw (error -17) > [ 4.253255] iwlagn 0000:03:00.0: PCI INT A disabled > [ 4.253263] iwlagn: probe of 0000:03:00.0 failed with error -17 This is ieee80211_register_hw() returning error 17 (EEXIST). One spot I saw where this can happen is if you are trying to register with the same name (wlanX) already used by another netdevice. Does this sound possible in your setup? Johannes - do you perhaps have an idea when this can happen? Reinette -- 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