After some tests with the 32-bit architecture, I'm now thoroughly confused. I tried different memory models including PAE - everything worked. I even generated a 2.6.31-rc9-wl kernel with John's config and it worked. Whatever is happening is not related to his configuration. I'm not sure what the problem is. I'm going to be offline for a few days - I hope the solution will be in my mailbox by the weekend. Larry -- 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