Kraig Jones wrote: > [snip ...] > Anyway, good luck with Ubuntu. I think you'll like it. > > Kraig > > > Ditto on Ubuntu. I've been running FC3 on my stuff because I'm working through the SELinux setup to secure a server. It turns out that FC3 is really slow running under VMWare on my machine at work and sort of dragged on my laptop at home. So just for yucks I downloaded Ubuntu and loaded it into a new VM and was thoroughly impressed. So then I tried it on the laptop at home and everything just works. This is a distribution I'd be will to support for friends and relatives :-) Last weekend I hit BB and CompUSA and picked up a couple of cheap 802.11g cards with the hopes that one of them would have some type of support. I figured I'd have to recompile a kernel, add a bunch of patches, etc. to get things to work. It turns out Ubuntu installs with ndiswrapper so it took 5 minutes (most of which was spent trying to find where I'd put paper copy of the WEP key) and its been up and running fine ever since. I've since been told that if the card was installed when I did the original install it would have been detected and set up automatically. BTW, if anyone is looking for cheap 54Mbps wireless stuff, BB is selling the D-Link 802.11g AP with a PC card for $20 after rebate. CompUSA has the Hawking in PCI, USB or PC card for $10 after rebate. I haven't tried the Hawking but the D-Link seems OK and is using the Atheros chip set. I think the Hawking is a Prism 54 but I have no idea if it is the old version that will work on Linux or the new version that offloads a bulk of the functionality into the drivers and won't work. --rick