I have two access-points, on 2 home LANs. I have set up two interfaces, eth1 and eth2, on my laptop, using the same WiFi device and driver (orinoco_cs). The theory is that if eth1 does not connect to AP1 then eth2 will connect to AP2. This used to work, but as far as I can see there has been a change in recent kernels with the result that if the first connection fails, the second always fails with the above error message in /var/log/messages . I googled for the error message, and saw many postings, but none that suggested any solution. Any suggestions of a way round gratefully received. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland