hi guys,

i'm trying to get my wlan to work on my laptop, i'm using a dualboot system with windows xp and redhat 9.

with windows xp everything works fine, but with redhat 9 i can't get it to work!
i've been working on it for 3 weeks now, and i'm really getting tired of this!

here's what i've done so far:
dowloaded and installed ndiswrapper-0.8-rc2 (also tried ndiswrapper-0.8, 0.4 and 0.6)
everything goes well until i load the module:

i got this error in dmesg:
ndiswrapper version 0.8-rc2 loaded
ndiswrapper adding w22n51.sys
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 01:02.0
divert: allocating divert_blk for wlan0
wlan0: ndiswrapper ethernet device 00:0e:35:08:eb:a5 using driver w22n51.sys
spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7.
wlan0: getting configuration failed (C0000001)
and this is my current ifcfg-wlan0 file in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ :
DEVICE=wlan0
MODE=Managed
ESSID=wireless
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
KEY=open
IPADDR=
NETMASK=
NETWORK=at_home
BROADCAST=
ONBOOT=yes
NAME=wireless
PEERDNS=yes
as you can see i'm not using WEP at the moment and mac filtering is also disabled.

but somehow i still can't access my network, i don't even get an IP!

i know it is the right driver, cause when i use a static ip with a netmask and broadcast, i can ping the static ip like a loop, also the output of "ndiswrapper -l" gives a present state.

i've read almost a dozen tutorials, howto's etc, about configuring wireless on linux, but this is the best i can come up with!

so if someone please can give me some advise, i would be extremely happy!!


thanks in advance