On Tue, 2005-10-11 at 09:46 +0100, marc wrote: > What I would like to know is whether this is a genuine requirement for > IPW2200 and why. In other words, I want to understand why this is > necessary. No, it isn't a requirement to have that line in /etc/fstab. The requirement is only that you have sysfs mounted as /sys. On my Debian system, /etc/init.d/mountvirtfs takes care of mounting /sys, and I don't have the line in /etc/fstab, yet ipw2200 works. Koen