[driverloader] Can't get WEP to work on Netgear WG311 v2 RedHat 9 or Fedora

[Robert Evans]

I've not be able to get WEP to work with a Netgear WG311v2 b/g PCI
wireless adapter. I'm using Fedora Core 1 (2.4.22-1.2174.nptl) but
the same problem was observed with RHL9.

The interface works fine without WEP. After I apply a key, iwconfig
shows the key is set but an error is reported in the log...

divert: allocating divert_blk for eth0
eth0: New link status: Disconnected (0002)
driverloader: ndisSetInformation: 802_11_REMOVE_KEY st=INVALID_DATA W=16 N=0
driverloader: ndisSetInformation: 802_11_REMOVE_KEY st=INVALID_DATA W=16 N=0
driverloader: ndisSetInformation: 802_11_REMOVE_KEY st=INVALID_DATA W=16 N=0
eth0: WEP64 supported
eth0: NETGEAR WG311v2 802.11g Wireless PCI Adapter at 00:0e.0 (MAC address 00:09:5B:BA:10:E4) ready
eth0: Error -22 configuring keys
eth0: New link status: Connected (0001)

iwconfig fails to pick up the Tx-Power value too (does that matter?)...

eth0      IEEE 802.11g  ESSID:"Mysid"  Nickname:"localhost.localdomain"
     Mode:Managed  Channel:0  Bit Rate=54Mb/s   Tx-Power=-2147483648 dBm
          RTS thr:off   Fragment thr=2312 B
          Encryption key:1234-5678-9A
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality:0  Signal level:0  Noise level:0
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

Ssid and key values are reported correctly (though the example above is
changed).

Although the link status shows 'connected' in the log, and the AP is
seen, DHCP times out. Also the X server sometimes goes extremely
slowly until it is killed and restarted after I enable the network.

The card should be capable of WEP128 and this works in Windows
using the same drivers (though WPA doesn't work but that's a
different story).

Robert
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