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Maybe - sounds like your wireless adapter isn't recognized automatically. Most hardware manufacturers only provide drivers to support Win and not Mac or Linux (MS doesn't provide drivers, hardware makers do). As drivers are developed by some manuf. or the linux community instead, they're incorporated into the core kernel - that's when they load automatically and "just work". But creative linux devs came up with ways of using Win drivers in linux, like ndiswrapper that you noticed. I used it to enable a D-link usb adapter (same issue as you have) on a few dif. distros, though I wasn't always successful. Can you connect via the wired port in the short-term while you fix your wireless problem? That'll help with getting some things you might need. Here's the link from HP to a driver for WinXP your card (might need that for ndiswrapper) http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/softwareDownloadIndex?softwareitem=ob-61972-1&lc=en&cc=us&os=228&product=3439333&dlc=en link for hardware compatability list with broadcom info: http://www.linuxquestions.org/hcl/showcat.php/cat/202 ndiswrapper site with some how-tos and compatability lists: http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/joomla/index.php?/component/option,com_openwiki/Itemid,33/ Do you know which Broadcom adapter you have (ie. model #)? [Modified by: Bob on August 23, 2008 02:58 PM]