More info, as you wished: soebbi@syn:~$ lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/PM/GMS/940GML and 945GT Express Memory Controller Hub (rev 03) 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03) 00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03) 00:07.0 Performance counters: Intel Corporation Unknown device 27a3 (rev 03) 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 02) 00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 02) 00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 02) 00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI #1 (rev 02) 00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI #2 (rev 02) 00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI #3 (rev 02) 00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI #4 (rev 02) 00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 02) 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev e2) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801GBM (ICH7-M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 02) 00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) IDE Controller (rev 02) 00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801GBM/GHM (ICH7 Family) Serial ATA Storage Controller IDE (rev 02) 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 02) 01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8053 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 22) 02:00.0 Network controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. Unknown device 0024 (rev 01) 03:03.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Agere Systems FW323 (rev 61) soebbi@syn:~$ lspci -n 00:00.0 0600: 8086:27a0 (rev 03) 00:02.0 0300: 8086:27a2 (rev 03) 00:02.1 0380: 8086:27a6 (rev 03) 00:07.0 1101: 8086:27a3 (rev 03) 00:1b.0 0403: 8086:27d8 (rev 02) 00:1c.0 0604: 8086:27d0 (rev 02) 00:1c.1 0604: 8086:27d2 (rev 02) 00:1d.0 0c03: 8086:27c8 (rev 02) 00:1d.1 0c03: 8086:27c9 (rev 02) 00:1d.2 0c03: 8086:27ca (rev 02) 00:1d.3 0c03: 8086:27cb (rev 02) 00:1d.7 0c03: 8086:27cc (rev 02) 00:1e.0 0604: 8086:2448 (rev e2) 00:1f.0 0601: 8086:27b9 (rev 02) 00:1f.1 0101: 8086:27df (rev 02) 00:1f.2 0101: 8086:27c4 (rev 02) 00:1f.3 0c05: 8086:27da (rev 02) 01:00.0 0200: 11ab:4362 (rev 22) 02:00.0 0280: 168c:0024 (rev 01) 03:03.0 0c00: 11c1:5811 (rev 61) soebbi@syn:~$ ndiswrapper -i net5416.inf installing net5416 ... forcing parameter MapRegisters from 256 to 64 forcing parameter MapRegisters from 256 to 64 forcing parameter MapRegisters from 256 to 64 forcing parameter MapRegisters from 256 to 64 forcing parameter MapRegisters from 256 to 64 forcing parameter MapRegisters from 256 to 64 forcing parameter MapRegisters from 256 to 64 forcing parameter MapRegisters from 256 to 64 soebbi@syn:~$ ndiswrapper -l net5416 : driver installed soebbi@syn:~$ modprobe ndiswrapper (crashes, switching to different terminal) soebbi@syn:~$ dmesg| grep ndiswrapper [ 326.336000] ndiswrapper version 1.38 loaded (preempt=no,smp=yes) [ 326.424000] ndiswrapper: driver net5416 (,05/14/2006,6.0.0.160) loaded [ 326.572000] ndiswrapper: using IRQ 16 [ 336.828000] [] timer_proc+0x0/0x70 [ndiswrapper] [ 336.828000] [] timer_proc+0x0/0x70 [ndiswrapper] [ 336.828000] [] wrap_miniport_timer+0x2b/0x80 [ndiswrapper] [ 336.828000] [] timer_proc+0x50/0x70 [ndiswrapper] [ 336.828000] [] KeStallExecutionProcessor+0xe/0x20 [ndiswrapper] [ 336.828000] [] ExAllocatePoolWithTag+0x31/0x1c0 [ndiswrapper] [ 336.828000] [] ExAllocatePoolWithTag+0x1b1/0x1c0 [ndiswrapper] [ 336.828000] [] NdisAllocateMemoryWithTag+0x1f/0x40 [ndiswrapper] [ 336.828000] [] NdisAllocateMemoryWithTag+0x1f/0x40 [ndiswrapper] [ 336.828000] [] miniport_set_info+0xfc/0x2d0 [ndiswrapper] [ 336.828000] [] set_essid+0x59/0xd0 [ndiswrapper] [ 336.828000] [] NdisDispatchPnp+0xabd/0xd80 [ndiswrapper] [ 336.828000] [] IoAllocateIrp+0x68/0xa0 [ndiswrapper] [ 336.828000] [] IofCallDriver+0x3a/0xa0 [ndiswrapper] [ 336.828000] [] IoSendIrpTopDev+0xbb/0x120 [ndiswrapper] [ 336.828000] [] pnp_start_device+0x53/0xb0 [ndiswrapper] [ 336.828000] [] wrap_pnp_start_device+0x1d3/0x280 [ndiswrapper] [ 336.828000] [] wrap_pnp_start_pci_device+0x45/0x50 [ndiswrapper] [ 336.828000] [] wrap_pnp_start_pci_device+0x0/0x50 [ndiswrapper] [ 336.828000] [] wrap_pnp_start_pci_device+0x0/0x50 [ndiswrapper] [ 336.828000] [] loader_init+0x102/0x220 [ndiswrapper] [ 336.828000] [] wrap_procfs_init+0x3f/0xb0 [ndiswrapper] [ 336.828000] [] wrapper_init+0xc7/0xd2 [ndiswrapper] Hope this helps, thank you very much in advance! Hendrik