hello matt i would first see if you can get a wlan card from the same manufacturer what's your access point from . next figure out if there are opensource driver - i heart that LINKSYS ... - and what's the REAL(!) chipset on the card. manufacturer change them, without changing the product name ! some links: not an idiot's guide, but for further reading: http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Wireless.html old, but flawless running prism based cards: http://www.linux-wlan.org/docs/wlan_adapters.html.gz no blame to the ndiswrapper developer, but i would keep the hands off that "construction" to get the card running see jun mailing list -> "closed driver and illegal software..." and and .... okay ? ronald sorry 4 broken english, but i think you can pick the sense/info...