Belkin wlan problem with Breezy

[brian]

Hello All: just got Breezy running on my hpominbook xe4100 notebook.
It's great - all's fine except my belkin pcmcia card. wlan0 won't come
up. Here's what I get: ndiswrapper installs fine but 'sudo ifup wlan0'
gives:

brian at thefergies:~$ sudo ifup wlan0
Password:
Error for wireless request "Set ESSID" (8B1A) :
    SET failed on device wlan0 ; No such device.
There is already a pid file /var/run/dhclient.wlan0.pid with pid 0
Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.0.2
Copyright 2004 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/products/DHCP

sit0: unknown hardware address type 776
SIOCSIFADDR: No such device
wlan0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
wlan0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
sit0: unknown hardware address type 776
Bind socket to interface: No such device
Failed to bring up wlan0.

/etc/network/interfaces:

brian at thefergies:~$ sudo cat /etc/network/interfaces
# This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
# and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).

# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

# This is a list of hotpluggable network interfaces.
# They will be activated automatically by the hotplug subsystem.
mapping hotplug
        script grep
        map eth0

# The primary network interface
iface eth0 inet dhcp

iface wlan0 inet dhcp
wireless-essid easynote
#iface wlan0 inet static
#wireless-channel 11
#wireless-mode managed
#wireless-rate 11M
#wireless-key 1234567890
#wireless-txpower 20
#address 192.168.1.33
#netmask 255.255.255.0
#gateway 192.168.1.1

auto eth0

auto wlan0


I commented out those lines thinking there may be a problem with them (I
don't really know what they all mean anyway)
I started looking in 'dmesg' and found lots of errors with ndiswrapper
telling me to look in syslog. Here's what I've found in syslog:


Nov 17 18:49:23 localhost kernel: [4298714.730000] ndiswrapper version
1.1 loaded (preempt=no,smp=no)
Nov 17 18:49:23 localhost kernel: [4298714.731000] kmem_cache_create:
duplicate cache ndis_mdl
Nov 17 18:49:23 localhost kernel: [4298714.731000] ------------[ cut 
here ]------------
Nov 17 18:49:23 localhost kernel: [4298714.731000] kernel BUG at <bad 
filename>:28043!
Nov 17 18:49:23 localhost kernel: [4298714.731000] invalid operand: 0000 
[#1]
Nov 17 18:49:23 localhost kernel: [4298714.731000] Modules linked in: 
ndiswrapper atmel_cs atmel firmware_class orinoco_cs orinoco hermes
rfcomm l2cap bluetooth cpufreq_powersave cpufreq_stats cpufreq_userspace 
cpufreq_ondemand cpufreq_conservative freq_table pcmcia tc1100_wmi video
battery container i2c_acpi_ec button pcc_acpi sony_acpi ac dev_acpi hotkey 
ipv6 af_packet floppy pcspkr rtc snd_via82xx_modem snd_seq_dummy
snd_seq_oss snd_seq_midi snd_seq_midi_event snd_seq snd_via82xx gameport 
snd_ac97_codec snd_pcm_oss snd_mixer_oss snd_pcm snd_timer
snd_page_alloc snd_mpu401_uart snd_rawmidi snd_seq_device snd soundcore 
i2c_viapro i2c_core via_ircc irda crc_ccitt yenta_socket rsrc_nonstatic
pcmcia_core shpchp pci_hotplug via_agp agpgart nls_iso8859_1 vfat fat 
nls_cp437 ntfs dm_mod tsdev evdev psmouse mousedev parport_pc lp parport
md reiserfs thermal processor fan via_rhine mii uhci_hcd usbcore ide_cd 
cdrom ide_disk ide_generic via82cxxx ide_core unix vesafb capability
commoncap vga16fb vgastate softcursor cfbimgb
Nov 17 18:49:23 localhost kernel: t cfbfillrect cfbcopyarea fbcon tileblit 
font bitblit
Nov 17 18:49:23 localhost kernel: [4298714.731000] CPU:    0
Nov 17 18:49:23 localhost kernel: [4298714.731000] EIP: 
0060:[kmem_cache_create+940/1038]    Tainted: P      VLI
Nov 17 18:49:23 localhost kernel: [4298714.731000] EFLAGS: 00010202
(2.6.12-9-386)
Nov 17 18:49:23 localhost kernel: [4298714.731000] EIP is at 
kmem_cache_create+0x3ac/0x40e
Nov 17 18:49:23 localhost kernel: [4298714.731000] eax: c0271146   ebx: 
cebc81e0   ecx: c5587f40   edx: cfdcb24b
Nov 17 18:49:23 localhost kernel: [4298714.731000] esi: cfdcb254   edi: 
cfdcb254   ebp: cebc82d0   esp: c5587f44
Nov 17 18:49:23 localhost kernel: [4298714.731000] ds: 007b   es: 007b ss: 
0068
Nov 17 18:49:23 localhost kernel: [4298714.731000] Process modprobe (pid: 
11605, threadinfo=c5586000 task=c36eba60)
Nov 17 18:49:23 localhost kernel: [4298714.731000] Stack: 00000010 c0000000 
00000004 c5587f84 c5586000 c0000000 c5586000 cfdc23b6
Nov 17 18:49:23 localhost kernel: [4298714.731000] cfdcb24b 00000024 
00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 cfb6105e 00000000
Nov 17 18:49:23 localhost kernel: [4298714.731000] cfdccac9 cfdccad8 
cfdccada cfdccade 00000000 c0000000 c0129667 c036cde8
Nov 17 18:49:23 localhost kernel: [4298714.731000] Call Trace: Nov 17 
18:49:23 localhost kernel: [4298714.731000]  [pg0
+262345654/1069995008] ntoskernel_init+0x46/0x70 [ndiswrapper]
Nov 17 18:49:23 localhost kernel: [4298714.731000]  [pg0 
+259850334/1069995008] wrapper_init+0x5e/0xe4 [ndiswrapper]
Nov 17 18:49:23 localhost kernel: [4298714.731000]  [sys_init_module 
+154/370] sys_init_module+0x9a/0x172
Nov 17 18:49:23 localhost kernel: [4298714.731000]  [sys_init_module 
+181/370] sys_init_module+0xb5/0x172
Nov 17 18:49:23 localhost kernel: [4298714.731000]  [sysenter_past_esp 
+84/117] sysenter_past_esp+0x54/0x75
Nov 17 18:49:23 localhost kernel: [4298714.731000] Code: c0 75 f8 31 c0 eb 
04 19 c0 0c 01 85 c0 75 1e ff 74 24 20 68 46 11 27 c0 e8 71 12 fe ff 58 5a 
ff 05 ac 15 37 c0 0f 8e 1a 0f 00 00 <0f> 0b 8b 6d 00 eb 97 8b 4c 24 04 b8 00 
e0 ff ff 21 e0 89 48 18
Sorry it's so long (and it wraps funny too) When the light on the belkin
card just starts to faintly come on I start getting strange keyboard
behaviour (keyboard can't keep up with my typing and endless repetitions
of keystrokes that I'm not making anymore) so I'm thinking a conflict
somewhere. I don't know enough about how to even find what conflict, let
alone resolve it. Please point me to where I should go next.
Thanks in advance