My wireless card is quite flakey. I don't think it's static electricity. I think it's heat or just general failure. After rebooting my laptop, my wireless card would not establish connection. I'll pulled out the card and it quite warm. I stuck it in and pulled it out a few times but it would not connect no matter what I did. (I changed WEP and channel and reset my WAP. Nothing worked.) I'm using my wired card right now. I'm thinking of buying another PCMCIA (PC Card) wireless card. I was going to go with a Orinoco Gold since it has some very nice features. And perhaps it won't flake out on me.