Hello list members. First, happy new year. I am running the speakup modified fedora dist and installed it last night.Now to the meat1! If I remember networks correctly, if I can't ping a local ip address, but can ping localhost (127.0.0.1) if I am correct the card is working? Example: my notebook is located on 192.168.1.201 I tried to ping an outside network and could not do it, so tried localhost/notebook. Aside from localhost, what is the easiest way to check to see if linux can see my card of type: broadcom 4401? thanks Eric