OK I have been reading a lot of how-tos and FAQ's and I am now definitely in a state of confusion. I have located and copied the source code for the drivers I need according to the redhat and/or d-link websites. I also have an exe file that is from the d-link site and is the driver for linux for these NIC's. I don't know what to do with any of these to go from here. If someone could point me in the right direction I would appreciate it. FYI I am not very experienced with moving around the linux directories but I am getting there :) Also I kind of need things spelled out so I understand which part of a command is fixed and which part I need to provide like: vi [filename] where I provide the filename. Thanks for any help given or forthcoming Cliff