Andy Green wrote: >wrong driver gets in first. Add this to /etc/modprobe.conf >install rt2500usb /bin/true Hi Andy I tried this - and the driver did load but is highly unstable in my machine. As soon as it fired up it loaded the driver when I plugged in the USB dongle, and managed to get an IP address via dhclient OK, but looking at iwconfig it showed a speed of 1Mb/s listed. Very soon after that the link dropped out, and got a lot of messages with: kernel: phy0 -> rt2x00usb_vendor_request: Error - Vendor Request 0x07 failed for offset 0x308c with error -110 The machine was difficult to do anything with at that point - and I could not kill the message stream - indeed in the end it hung both X and the kernel crashed! Am reverting to rt73 for the moment! Mike -- mike cohler