Well just for Sh*ts and giggles, why don't you check out this LiveCD and see if it has what you need. Here is a link to the Devices known to work, you can find the DL link from there. http://www.remote-exploit.org/index....itor_dev_list1 I've had good luck getting wireless cards to show signs of life on that, while not being able to get the card to actually do anything on my Fedora Core 3. Working with LiveCDs to get these cards to work may not be your best bet. An actual configurable system will probably get you alot farther. Also, I know Damn Small Linux has some wireless support in it, you should google that page up and see if that live distro will give you any luck. Damn Small Linux isn't a huge set of programs, but for most stuff it does the trick. DSL is pretty good, I actually almost coaxed a 70Mhz pentium laptop with 16MB of RAM to use a wireless card, i was kinda shocked by that one. I got it recognized and I found an AP but i didn't manage to connect it, but it had signs of life. Just google around and find the best LiveCD for wireless support. I'm not sure what your actually going to be doing with your distro, but The Auditor's Security Collection has some of the basic apps like Mozilla and the like, if your just looking to surf the web. DSL has the basics too. I always try a bunch of LiveCDs to see which one will give you the best response. Wasting about 10 cds, at about 25 cents a pop isn't too bad. I'd waste $2.50 to shop around. sorry if this doens't make any sense it's early for me