Dear friends, Successfully connected to unencrypted wireless network after stopping netplugd. Looking forward to testing encrypted network. Thanks for all who tried to help. Apparently, too much software can be as bad as too little. Take care Oliver -- Oliver Ruebenacker, Post-Doc Researcher Theoretical Biological Physics and Soft Statistical Mechanics Cell Biology at UConn Health Center and Physics at Harvard http://people.deas.harvard.edu/~oliver/