Power Pup - thanks for the ideas. I only tried to re-install the Orinoco drivers because the Airport software was acting so weird and not seeing the network, initiating short term freezes etc. But I don't know how to make OS 9.2 see the card as a WaveLan card rather than an Airport card. That's why I tried stepping back to 9.1, and there the card is seen as WaveLan and the Orinoco drivers work, but same result, no hook.

I have now taken a new Pismo I just got in, done a virgin install of 9.2.2 and I'm going to try and make that one see the open network at work using the Orinoco card. Last night that one was not seeing the home network either. Curiouser and curiouser...

I may just give up and let the Pismos running 10.4.11 be my internet daily drivers and consign the two Lombards to offline duty. I'm just doing it to try and understand what is going on...it's bugging me that I can't figure it out, you know?