jim wrote: I finally got it to work, ipw2100. I use netGo; I rename the ifcfg-eth to ifcfg-eth0 # my ethernet card I rename the ifcfg-wlan to ifcfg-eth1 #my wireless card ipw2100 And the only entries I made was to ; Profile jim Interface eth1 # eth1 wireless card, eth0 the eathernet I didn't make any changes because it was working. Nameserver #1 172.16.0.1 # which is my AP adress Mode Managed Essid 2WIRE783 #which is my AP Key 9852-1023-46 # my key to access AP, set to hex key And last, I went back to start window of netgo and clicked on GO to save changes and start network , which for some strange I have not done before and WHA-La. But after I rebooted computer eth1 wouldn't work I had to go back to netGo select profile and click GO again to start eth1. I have eth0 to 'off'' Below is my ifcfg-eth1 file, why won't it start at BOOT time? BOOTPROTO='dhcp' MTU='' REMOTE_IPADDR='' STARTMODE='auto' NAME='Intel PRO/Wireless LAN 2100 3B Mini PCI Adapter' UNIQUE='JNkJ.x2u1_foDyv7' USERCONTROL='yes' WIRELESS='yes' WIRELESS_AP='2WIRE783' WIRELESS_AUTH_MODE='open' WIRELESS_BITRATE='auto' WIRELESS_CHANNEL='' WIRELESS_ESSID='2WIRE783' WIRELESS_FREQUENCY='' WIRELESS_KEY='h:8956-2310-64 open' WIRELESS_KEY_1='' WIRELESS_KEY_2='' WIRELESS_KEY_3='' WIRELESS_KEY_LENGTH='64' WIRELESS_MODE='Managed' WIRELESS_NICK='' WIRELESS_NWID='' WIRELESS_POWER='no' WIRELESS_WPA_PSK='' _nm_name='bus-pci-0000:02:03.0' BROADCAST='' IPADDR='' NETMASK='' NETWORK='' WIRELESS_CA_CERT='' WIRELESS_CLIENT_CERT='' WIRELESS_WPA_IDENTITY='' WIRELESS_WPA_PASSWORD=''