WORKAROUND! If anybody else has this problem, I hope the following workaround works for you: Put this text: options ath9k_htc nohwcrypt=1 into this file: /etc/modprobe.d/ath9k_htc.conf Then reboot (or maybe you can just reload the module?) I haven't gotten a single kernel panic since implementing this workaround almost a month ago. Before that I got a kernel panic every 3-5 days or so. -- Jason