<html> <head> <style> .hmmessage P { margin:0px; padding:0px } body.hmmessage { FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY:Tahoma } </style> </head> <body class='hmmessage'> I'm running Ubuntu 7.04 and have no internet access cuz it doesn't recognize my Encore PCI wireless card. I did a search and found where someone said this was an RT2500 chipset and gave a bunch of command line instructions : 1. go to TERMINAL 2. type: wget http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/rt2500-cvs-daily.tar.gz 3. type: tar -xzf rt2500-cvs-daily.tar.gz 4. type: sudo apt-get install build-essential linux-headers-$(uname -r) 5. type: cd ./rt2500-cvs-*/Module 6. type: make 7. To test, type: sudo insmod rt2500.ko Exit TERMINAL 1. Select: [System] – [Administration] – [Networking] 2. Find the wireless card, then Select  [Activate] In the above I put this file on my desktop and ran the instructions but it said "couldn't find build-essential" or something like that. In the end, there's still nothing under my network connections other than a plain ethernet and a modem - no wireless card. Someone said I might have to use NDISWRAPPER but I'm not sure what to do. Can someone help? - John </body> </html>