bruce wrote: > hi jim.... > > > i have a dell laptop, using a netgear card. i had to resort to > downloading/using the madwifi rpms from atprm. i purchased my card from best > buy.. > > as a suggestion, if you haven't already, i'd advise you to go to the madwifi > site... check to see if your card is listed.. if it is, go ahead and > download the requisite rpms, and follow the instructions... > > if your card's not listed, i'd suggest getting one that is. > > it's actually not hard to everything working. i'm not sure how/if you can > get a gui that allows you to see signal strength/etc... > kwifimanager, if you've installed KDE as well as Gnome > -- Steve