Hi Luis, The patch works on my system. ifconfig ath0 up doesn't lock the system I enabled debug and it does an active scan where it sends probes to ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff on a bunch of channels, gets a beacon from my AP, then when it tries to send an auth to my AP, I get: "ath0: device timeout".
My guess is the device isn't supported or WPA/WPA2 isn't working yet for it? Haven't tried with an open/unencrypted access or WEP point yet to see if that makes any difference. ath0 at pci3 dev 0 function 0 "Atheros AR5424" rev 0x01: apic 1 int 18 (irq 10) ath0: AR5424 14.2 phy 7.0 rf 10.2, WOR0W, address 00:15:af:b5:36:7f Tom