>> I've read that Fedora and Ubuntu already are using the new driver models >> (or something along those lines) so what's been the experience so far? mac80211 drivers work pretty well for iwl3945, bcm43xx-mac80211 and zd1211rw-mac80211 that I have experience with. > Jul 15 04:45:14 serenity NetworkManager: <info> Error getting > killswitch power: org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.KillSwitch.NotSupported - > Access type not supported I wouldn't take an error from NetworkManager as anything except a suggestion to keep trying with NetworkManager turned off. NetworkManager is an extra layer on top of the existing somewhat under-development and rickety other stuff. service NetworkManager stop and for good measure to stop it resurrecting itself chkconfig NetworkManager off Then you should look for wireless-related messages in dmesg and use iwconfig to see the device state and to set option on it. Something to be aware of: mac80211 insists the interface is down (meaning, eg, ifconfig wlan0 down) before it can have its iwconfig mode set and to be up before you can set the channel ;-) -Andy
