Happy Holidays to All, I have been running SUSE 9.1 on my Dell C640 laptop for several months. The internal WIFI card (TrueMobile 1150 Series PC Card) is always detected and the kernel loads orinoco_cs on every boot. The problem is that an interface (should be eth1 as eth0 is the internal ethernet adapter) is not created unless the laptop is in close proximity to the access point and the WIFI configuration is correct for that AP. For example, when configured for my home network, the laptop will not create eth1 if booted in the living room (fairly weak signal) but will create eth1 when started in the office (strong signal). As the card is PCMCIA, I have tried "cardctl ident" when the interface is missing and the card is correctly identified. Running "cardctl reset" or with consecutive "eject" and "insert" has no effect. Changing the Network Device configuration in Yast correctly saves the modified config, but does not restart the interface (maybe because there is no interface?) Does anyone have any ideas for me? Thanks Rob