I'm in a similar boat. Last week I picked up a NetGear WGR614 (http://www.netgear.com/products/prod_details.asp?prodID=174) Access Point for about $54 after mail in rebate and $25 gift card left over from Christmas. A good deal as I needed some sort of router/firewall. Wireless is a bonus. (For any of you Apple folks, Kremer's Powerbook with an AirPort Extreme connects to the AP with 128 bit WEP at 802.11g speeds, even though the card and the AP don't have the IEEE 802.11g firmware installed. NetGear has released beta firmware that complies with the IEEE standard, but I haven't had a reason to try it since said Powerbook is the only wireless device in our apartment, and it worked just fine as is.) I looked at the cards you can find at Best Buy. Every model number I jotted down is unsupported, mainly for the reasons Mike Hicks stated. The wireless access HOWTO Scot pointed out has a good run down of Wireless cards under Linux. From memory, orinoco, wavelan2, airport, airo, and prism2 cards are the more popular picks for Linux. The standout being prism2 cards as they can be made to function as an Access Point. For security people, Airo, Prism2, and Orinoco are perfered as they are supported by tools like AirSnort. Locally, my guess is your best bet for finding the cards is at MicroCenter, as they tend to stock network gear from folks other than Netgear, D-Link, and Linksys (as well as a wider selection of gear from said companies, like their network print servers) Andrew S. Zbikowski | http://www.ringworld.org Linux is not an Operating System. _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list