One last check. I would appreciate receiving answers to the following questions. These questions apply to anyone else with this problem. Does the pm_qos patch help your "fatal DMA error" problem, particularly when booted from power-off? If you warm-boot after loading the wl driver, does the patch make any difference? 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