Netgear WG511T (Atheros) pcmcia card can't associate with wireless AP

[Danny Colligan]

Hello all, I just bought a Netgear WG511T pcmcia card
(http://www.netgear.com/Products/Adapters/SuperGWirelessAdapters/WG511T.aspx?detail=Specifications
) and I can't get it to associate with a wireless access point.  I'm not
sure what's wrong, but here's what I've done so far (I'm using Ubuntu
6.10Edgy Eft):

I followed the instructions for setting up the MadWifi drivers here
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=38972&page=1&pp=10 for this
Atheros-based card.  The ath0 interface appears under
system->administration->networking and iwconfig.  Digging through earlier
ubuntu-users posts, I found the command iwpriv ath0 authmode 2 which I
tried, but that didn't seem to make the card work.  Also, when I try and run
dhclient ah0 on the terminal, it spits out a "wifi0: unknown hardware
address type 801" twice before it does anything.  It also does this
when I dhclient
eth1 (sucessfully).

I know it's not a problem with my router (linksys WRT54GL running dd-wrt
firmware) because I can associate to it with the other wireless interface in
my laptop, an intel centrino ipw2100.  (This is not a problem, having 2
wireless interfaces in the same laptop, or having them connected to the same
wireless ap, right?)   The centrino card is a 802.11b card and the Netgear
is a 802.11g.

Here's my iwconfig output:

root at edgylap:/# iwconfig
lo        no wireless extensions.

eth0      no wireless extensions.

eth1      IEEE 802.11b  ESSID:"dd-wrt"  Nickname:"ipw2100"
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.437 GHz  Access Point: <scrubbed from
email>
          Bit Rate=11 Mb/s   Tx-Power:16 dBm
          Retry min limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Encryption key:off
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality=99/100  Signal level=-32 dBm
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:1  Invalid misc:2   Missed beacon:2

wifi0     no wireless extensions.

ath0      IEEE 802.11g  ESSID:"dd-wrt"
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.437 GHz  Access Point: Not-Associated
          Bit Rate:1 Mb/s   Tx-Power:18 dBm   Sensitivity=0/3
          Retry:off   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Encryption key:off
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality=57/94  Signal level=-38 dBm  Noise level=-95 dBm
          Rx invalid nwid:13048  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

sit0      no wireless extensions.

Thanks in advance,

Danny
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