Hi, I'm running 8 stable and I found the system freeze twice so long. when i try ifconfig wlan0 destroy , the system hang up and freeze, Or I try /etc/rc.d/netif restart, the same thing happend. I think the system freeze is because the interface wlan0, I had see the interface wlan0 would disappear itself!! and I saw "ioctl(SIOCGIFFLAGS) on wlan0: " message. I can not found any useful info for that,but i got some strange messages from dmesg: Feb 25 13:48:00 jerry wpa_supplicant[438]: CTRL-EVENT-SCAN-RESULTS Feb 25 13:50:22 jerry kernel: arp: 00:21:00:3c:9e:f8 is using my IP address 192.168.1.2 on wlan0! Feb 25 13:53:02 jerry wpa_supplicant[438]: CTRL-EVENT-SCAN-RESULTS Feb 25 13:55:22 jerry kernel: arp: 00:21:00:3c:9e:f8 is using my IP address 192.168.1.2 on wlan0! Feb 25 13:58:04 jerry wpa_supplicant[438]: CTRL-EVENT-SCAN-RESULTS Feb 25 14:03:07 jerry wpa_supplicant[438]: CTRL-EVENT-SCAN-RESULTS Feb 25 14:04:26 jerry wpa_supplicant[438]: Failed to disable WPA in the driver. Feb 25 14:04:27 jerry kernel: wlan0: link state changed to DOWN Feb 25 14:04:26 jerry dhclient[1580]: receive_packet failed on wlan0: Device not configured Feb 25 14:04:26 jerry dhclient[1580]: ioctl(SIOCGIFFLAGS) on wlan0: Operation not permitted Feb 25 14:04:26 jerry dhclient[1580]: Interface wlan0 no longer appears valid. Feb 25 14:04:26 jerry dhclient[1580]: No live interfaces to poll on - exiting. Feb 25 14:04:26 jerry dhclient[1580]: exiting. Feb 25 14:04:26 jerry dhclient[1491]: connection closed Feb 25 14:04:26 jerry dhclient[1491]: exiting. ----------- more info pciconf -lv: ath0@pci0:2:0:0: class=0x020000 card=0x0035168c chip=0x001c168c rev=0x01 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Atheros Communications Inc.' device = 'HDAUDIOFUNC_01&VEN_1095&DEV_1392&SUBSYS_10280242&REV_1000 (USBVID_147E&PID_20165&B71A446&0&1)' class = network subclass = ethernet $ dmesg| grep ath ath0: <Atheros 5424/2424> mem 0xfd9f0000-0xfd9fffff irq 17 at device 0.0 on pci2 ath0: [ITHREAD] ath0: AR2425 mac 14.2 RF5424 phy 7.0 #rc.conf wlans_ath0="wlan0" ifconfig_wlan0="WPA DHCP"