I am testing a ThinkPad Z60m using the 7.10 Live CD. "Out of the box" the 128-bit WEP encryption is not available, and therefore I wasn't able to access my wireless router, or the Internet. Googling the problem led me to this bug report (Bug #67876 in gnome-system-tools) ( <a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-system-tools/+bug/67876">https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-system-tools/+bug/67876</a> ) which explains how to manually setup eht1 by following these steps: <div style="margin-left: 40px;">iwconfig eth1 essid "yourSSIDhere" key "allTwentySixHexLettersHere" sudo ifdown eth1 sudo ifup eth1 </div> Once I executed these commands my Intell PRO/Wireless 2200 BG card was working and I was connected to the router. One of the comments to the article mentions modifying the wireless-tools file in /etc/network/id-pre-up.d, so that these commands happen automatically at boot time. My questions are: 1) Is there a better (preferred) way to enable 128-bit WEP encryption in 7.10? 2) If the answer to #1 is no, then where in wireless-tools (and how) do I add the three lines above? Thanks! Mark -- I don't believe I understand all I know about this. Release 7.10 (gutsy), Kernel Linux 2.6.22-14-generic, GNOME 2.20.0 Memory 2.2 GB, Processor 0 & 1: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.4 GHz, Graphics: ATI Radeon X300