if (!skb) {
                printk(KERN_WARNING "%s: Can't alloc a sk_buff of size %d.\n",
                       dev->name, pkt_len);
-               this->stats.rx_dropped++;
+               dev->stats.rx_dropped++;
        } else {
                skb->dev = dev;
                skb_reserve(skb, 2); /* IP headers on 16 bytes boundaries */
                wl3501_receive(this, skb->data, pkt_len);
                skb_put(skb, pkt_len);
                skb->protocol   = eth_type_trans(skb, dev);
-               this->stats.rx_packets++;
-               this->stats.rx_bytes += skb->len;
+               dev->stats.rx_packets++;
+               dev->stats.rx_bytes += skb->len;
                netif_rx(skb);
        }
 }
 static void wl3501_tx_timeout(struct net_device *dev)
 {
        struct wl3501_card *this = netdev_priv(dev);
-       struct net_device_stats *stats = &this->stats;
+       struct net_device_stats *stats = &dev->stats;
        unsigned long flags;
        int rc;
 
        if (enabled)
                wl3501_unblock_interrupt(this);
        if (rc) {
-               ++this->stats.tx_dropped;
+               ++dev->stats.tx_dropped;
                netif_stop_queue(dev);
        } else {
-               ++this->stats.tx_packets;
-               this->stats.tx_bytes += skb->len;
+               ++dev->stats.tx_packets;
+               dev->stats.tx_bytes += skb->len;
                kfree_skb(skb);
 
                if (this->tx_buffer_cnt < 2)
        goto out;
 }
 
-static struct net_device_stats *wl3501_get_stats(struct net_device *dev)
-{
-       struct wl3501_card *this = netdev_priv(dev);
-
-       return &this->stats;
-}
-
 static struct iw_statistics *wl3501_get_wireless_stats(struct net_device *dev)
 {
        struct wl3501_card *this = netdev_priv(dev);
        dev = alloc_etherdev(sizeof(struct wl3501_card));
        if (!dev)
                goto out_link;
+
+
        dev->open               = wl3501_open;
        dev->stop               = wl3501_close;
        dev->hard_start_xmit    = wl3501_hard_start_xmit;
        dev->tx_timeout         = wl3501_tx_timeout;
        dev->watchdog_timeo     = 5 * HZ;
-       dev->get_stats          = wl3501_get_stats;
+
        this = netdev_priv(dev);
        this->wireless_data.spy_data = &this->spy_data;
        this->p_dev = p_dev;