and now 2.6.35 with this commit reverted (the above patch applied)
connects to my access point. 

i am willing to test an official patch against 2.6.35 (i'm just about to
leave for work so it might not happen until later today though).

--alex--

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| I believe the moment is at hand when, by a paranoiac and active |
|  advance of the mind, it will be possible (simultaneously with  |
|  automatism and other passive states) to systematize confusion  |
|  and thus to help to discredit completely the world of reality. |