John, If possible, I would like you to do one more test on that troublesome netbook. Please build a kernel with CONFIG_MMIOTRACE=y and build the Broadcom wl driver for it. Starting with wl unloaded, issue the following commands (as root): echo 10000 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/buffer_size_kb echo mmiotrace > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/current_tracer cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_pipe > wl_dump.txt & modprobe -v wl After the wireless network device gets created, etc., then echo nop > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/current_tracer sleep 1 killproc cat and send me the file wl_dump.txt. With it, I will be able to see if the Broadcom driver is actually finding an SPROM that b43 is missing. Thanks, 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