[AndrewZorn]

WOW. I'm going to try that first suggestion later. I have had SO MUCH TROUBLE with tethering on my Linux laptop. Bluetooth doesn't work and often crashes the laptop. So I went to WMWifiRouter, which is great for everyone that uses Windows... but my wireless drivers have trouble with Ad-Hoc. Eventually wrote a script to 'fix' this by switching to ad-hoc mode in a different driver... among other things.