There simply aren't any NDIS2 drivers made for wireless adapters, unfortunately, and this is largely due to the approach taken to wireless security in the 802.11 standards, in which the two separate ideas of authentication and encryption have tended to end up mixed together. The end result is that no manufacturer (to my knowledge, except for one exception of a single early 802.11a adapter which only worked in DOS with open networks) has bothered making NDIS2 drivers for their cards.

Even in Windows PE, getting wireless adapters up is a nightmare, again largely because of the authentication/encryption system and how the various manufacturers have coded their proprietary user "helper" programs that manage the process of selecting a network and presenting stored authentication credentials to them.

Pretty much the only consolation is that wired connections are vastly faster in practice for Ghost-type operations - which involve transferring very large amounts of data - than wireless ones. Even on a dirt-cheap 4-port 100mbit wired switch Ghost can get to basically saturate the link, whereas you'd be incredibly lucky to get even half that effective throughput between two nodes on typical 802.11 wireless.

Thank you nigel.  Thank you Ben.

I will stick with ethernet.  ubcd4win beyond my skills.

Right now I am upgrading to gigabit.

Will report back.

alan