Well, it turns out that perhaps I have a hardware problem. I installed Windows 2000 on my laptop and tried to install the orinoco card. I installed the drivers from CD before inserting the card per the instructions. After rebooting (of course!) the "new hardware found" wizard popped up, but when trying to identify the card, it listed a bunch of gibberish with hints of the card's true identifier string -- something like: Orin*^%Mco Wir810jue83les$ *&(K3LAN. When I then navigated to the directory where the Orinoco software had installed the driver, it would not install. I pointed the wizard to the .inf file itself but it still wouldn't work. So, I thought perhaps the card was bad. I bought a Linksys WC11 card (supported in Linux with the same orinoco driver) and got a similar result. It wouldn't install in Windows or SuSE. Now I'm thinking the pcmcia slot is broken somehow. :-( I wonder if the laptop is still under warranty.... Thanks again to everybody on this list, especially Keith Winston, for all the help and advice. It's the generous assistance of the users of this list (along with interesting threads like "Linux & Wife") that makes me want to stay a SuSE user forever (along with a great distribution, of course!). Best regards, Charles __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com