According the the man-page, this is not supposed to happen: ath0: <Atheros 5212> mem 0xe0200000-0xe020ffff irq 9 at device 11.0 on pci2 ath0: cannot map register space The machine is Sony Vaio TR2/B. The WiFi works fine from Windows (much better than the Orinoco card in another laptop). -mi