fred smith wrote: Hello. > Specifically, could a laptop running Centos 5.1 be expected to (be > able to) connect to a wireless access point using WPA2 security > settings? Yes, it could. I am using a laptop with a pcmcia wlan card with wpa2 and aes and 54Mbit/s. It is connected with a speedport 701 access point. This is working cause of the ralink rt61 chipset of the wlan card. This setting is working without any problems here. You can get the driver from http://www.ralinktech.com/ralink/Home/Support/Linux.html. You have to compile this driver after each new kernel update. The most problem is to find a wlan card with a ralink rt61 chipset at the moment. I have found one at http://www.tuxhardware.de/product431/product_info.html for my second notebook. regards Olaf