I persuaded a reluctant friend to buy a new computer. I enthusiastically extolled the joys and benefits of Centos and promised to install it on his new machine - dual booting with Micro$oft Windoze 7. His super-duper new laptop arrived. Acer, AMD 4 core, fast etc. but not as nice looking as my impressive HP DV5. The wireless refused to connect. After 8 hours on Saturday I could sometimes see hubs in the neighbourhood but could not connect to my own hub using WPA2. iwlist wlan0 scan produced technical details of local hubs - but still could not connect. NetworkManager sometimes froze. Spent many hours Googling for his wifi adaptor Altheros AR928K which uses a driver known as ATH9K. Many others have had a similar problem. Kernel 2.6.27 apparently includes this driver but Centos 5.5 is 2.6.18. On my Sony Vaio netbook I abandoned XP and installed Centos 5.5. No wifi (yet XP had) but luckily for me I eventually discovered the Altheros AR8132 needed ATL1E which, for Centos 5.5, means a kernel modification. Luckily it is on Elrepo as kmod-atl1e. A quick Yum and I was connected. Many thanks to Elrepo. The netbook comes to life with Centos. Its now a really usable machine. XP on a netbook was pure crap. However ATH9K for Centos 5.5 does not exist. This afternoon I had to tell my friend his brand new computer is incompatible with Centos and wifi. Please can anyone recommend a suitable Linux variant with a kernel >= 2.6.27 that is a bit like Centos ? Does anyone know if Centos 5.6 will be on 2.6.18 and whether it will have drivers like ATH9K ? Anyone any idea what kernel version Centos 6 will have ? Thank you. Best regards, Paul GB Centos on 2 VPS, 2 desktops, 1 laptop and 1 netbook. Going cheap : genuine Windoze 95 and 98 installation disks :-)