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I too got my 3Com PCMCIA card recently and have had a great deal of luck with making it work (once I figured out how to make a crossover cable-- since I have only 2 computers and no hub on a 10BaseT setup!). I didn't post anything here because it seemed like everyone else also got there's and there was plenty of reviews flying around--so no need for mine. But one thing that seems to have been left out is this comment: Many people have mentioned that their PCMCIA cards of other devices (usually modems) have had to be "hot-plugged"--re-inserted so they would re-activate after the machine had gone into suspend or hibernate mode. The good news is that I have never had to that with the 3Com card. I can suspend and wake-up with impunity and never have to re-plug the card. I presume this has to do with the fact that it bypasses card services and "talks" directly to the port (don't ask me how, but 3Com has it figured out). My guess is that it also makes the card less useful in a wide-variety of machines, since it probably has to play with some special commands that maybe not all (specifically, cheapee) notebooks have. It lists on the box some specific machines it will *not* work with. On another thought--I have a question for those of you who got the 3Com "Combo" PCMCIA card: Does it have 2 different "tails"--one for 10BaseT and one for 10Base2, or what exactly? I am considering getting the combo card for flexibility purposes and returning the 10BaseT only card, but I do not want to have to deal with a big, floppy 10Base2 combination tail when I need only 10BaseT. If I can "choose" the tail I need for the type of network I'm on, I'm willing to spend the extra $30 for the flexibility. Comments, please? ----- Randy Whittle whittle@scf.usc.edu University of Southern California School of Business (Fight on, 'SC Trojans!) - Motorcycle nut, HP 48GX & 100LX user, & lover of fine chocolate... "It's not denial, I'm just very selective about the reality I accept!" -Calvin "Consensus is the negation of leadership." - Margaret Thatcher