I don't use ndiswrapper on F7 (yet?). I did set up Ubuntu on a notebook with ndiswrapper. I found that the then-current ndiswrapper version, 1.43, did not work. I then used the repository version, and that didn't work. Then I let the author of ndiswrapper to log into my machine and he fixed the problem (I am truly grateful). He then adopted those fixes (or perhaps something better). I would strongly recommend using 1.46 which has those fixes and others. Especially if you have a multi-core CPU. Read the description of the changes here: http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/joomla/ Livna seems to be distributing 1.43 in http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/7/x86_64/ Is that what people are using?