Full dmesg of the faulty run with debugging attached for your reference. Indeed, as John said this patch made it into mainline and is already applied to my sources: chainsaw@amalthea /cvs/linux-2.6 $ patch --dry-run -p1 -i ~/\[PATCH_5_6 \]_cfg80211\:_Fix_regression_with_11d_on_bands.diff patching file net/wireless/reg.c Reversed (or previously applied) patch detected! Assume -R? [n] ^C Regards, Tony V.