[driverloader] Redhat 9 WPC54G

[Bediako George]

Hello all,

I am trying to configure WPC54G card against a D-link
DI-614+ AP.  I have successfully installed the driver
module, but can configure the card using Redhat 9's
network configuration tool.  However upon trying to
activate the card it takes a long time and finally
returns this error:

 Error for wireless request "Set Encode" (8B2A) :
    invalid argument "s:".

Determining IP information for eth1... failed.


I have completed an iwlist and it returns:

iwlist scan
lo        Interface doesn't support scanning :
Operation not supported
 
eth0      Interface doesn't support scanning :
Operation not supported
 
eth1      Scan completed :
          Cell 01 - Address: 00:40:05:B7:F4:2B
                    ESSID:"Bediako"
                    Mode:Managed
                    Frequency:2.422GHz
                    Quality:1/1  Signal level:-17 dBm 
Noise level:-200 dBm
                    Encryption key:off
                    Bit Rate:1Mb/s
                    Bit Rate:2Mb/s
                    Bit Rate:5.5Mb/s
                    Bit Rate:11Mb/s
                    Bit Rate:22Mb/s
                    Extra:bcn_int=100
          Cell 02 - Address: 6E:84:B4:48:6C:9C
                    ESSID:"Bediako"
                    Mode:Auto
                    Frequency:2.422GHz
                    Quality:1  Signal level:0  Noise
level:56
                    Encryption key:off
                    Bit Rate:1Mb/s
                    Bit Rate:2Mb/s
                    Bit Rate:5.5Mb/s
                    Bit Rate:6Mb/s
                    Bit Rate:9Mb/s
                    Bit Rate:11Mb/s
                    Bit Rate:12Mb/s
                    Bit Rate:18Mb/s
                    Bit Rate:24Mb/s
                    Bit Rate:36Mb/s
                    Bit Rate:48Mb/s
                    Bit Rate:54Mb/s
                    Extra:bcn_int=100

ifconfig gives:


eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr
00:0B:DB:14:E9:C4
          inet addr:192.168.0.100  Bcast:192.168.0.255
 Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500 
Metric:1
          RX packets:20432 errors:0 dropped:0
overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:14470 errors:0 dropped:0
overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
          RX bytes:25906946 (24.7 Mb)  TX
bytes:1592531 (1.5 Mb)
          Interrupt:11 Base address:0xec80
                                                      
                          
eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr
00:0C:41:C4:5A:F1
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500 
Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
frame:0
          TX packets:234 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:67428 (65.8 Kb)
                                                      
                          
lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:157086 errors:0 dropped:0
overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:157086 errors:0 dropped:0
overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:11679701 (11.1 Mb)  TX
bytes:11679701 (11.1 Mb)

Also my access point indicates that it has seen and
recognized my wireless card by displaying the MAC
address.

Looking at the /var/log/messages file while the
network tool is trying to configure the card, I
noticed the following output:

Jan 19 14:53:57 localhost dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on
eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 5
Jan 19 14:54:02 localhost dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on
eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 11
Jan 19 14:54:13 localhost dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on
eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 20
Jan 19 14:54:14 localhost dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on
eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 3
Jan 19 14:54:17 localhost dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on
eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 7
Jan 19 14:54:24 localhost dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on
eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 9
Jan 19 14:54:33 localhost dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on
eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 12
Jan 19 14:54:33 localhost dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on
eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 19
Jan 19 14:54:45 localhost dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on
eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 13
Jan 19 14:54:52 localhost dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on
eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 19
Jan 19 14:54:58 localhost dhclient: No DHCPOFFERS
received.


I am unfamiliar with the solution to this problem. 
Does anyone have any idea of what I can do to solve
this.  I tried hardcoding an ip address for eth1 (my
wireless card).  Even after rebuilding the routing
tables using route, I am unable to ping my gateway.


Does anyone have a clue as to what I am omitting? 
Thank you very much for your reply.

Regards,

Bediako George