Thought I'd post my workaround for the issue I've been experiencing. My setup is as follows: Ubuntu 9.10 x86 and a BCM4318 in AP mode. Briefly, I'd see a message in the logs about hardware encryption being disabled, at which point my NIC would stop beaconing. Apparently turning off QoS support remedies this problem. Putting this line into /etc/modules made my wireless usable: b43 qos=0 Obviously, QoS support is preferable to not, but I don't really need it for my SOHO needs. Hopefully this will help someone else. Eric -- 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