I have seen quite a few posts about problems with wireless cards and laptops. I am going to try and be of some worthy help here. I have found that SONY laptops and orinoco cards are a good combination runnung FC1. Actually, SONY laptops accept FC1 great out of the box and everything worked for me!! I have done it on 2 different laptops painlessly. So anyone considering using FC1 on a laptop, consider a SONY ( I don't know about FC2 ) Don Dupy Systems Administrator Maxxrad PC Services http://www.maxxrad.net email: fedora@xxxxxxxxxxx