A quick followup to this. 1) ipw2200 and iwl3945 also run consistently and remain stable for WPA wireless encryption. This is very nice after spending a lot of time getting the systems set up. 2) On trying the in kernel rt73usb (from rt2x00) driver again this is not stable, for any real load on the link, and gives a lot of problems. Even with the new test kernel it is still very unstable. Does anyone have any experience with rt73usb using rawhide kernels and/or rawhide wpa_supplicant within f7?