internet connect problems - no access

[greywolf19]

I finally found the original disks [they had been filed away for 'safety' and could not remember I had them ! } and got the proper .inf files .. the driver loaded and the card is 'basically working in that Kwifi goes green ! and recognizes the wireless signal BUT [it seems there is always a 'but'] the laptop flatly refuses to see the router or any other pc in the net .. configured the card and network settings
Did an iwconfig and the main things that I see are different from the pc that is working is as follows ..

There is no idication of Access Point .. ie it shows 00:00:00:00...
RTS thru : 2347B fragment thru 2346B [the pc shows these as off]
Essid : off/any ....[note: I have repeatidly tried to set this but even though wcardconfig accepts the name I give it, it does not seem to stick .. i have even tried to do it thru a cmd line in root ...]

My Knoppix PC shows what I assume is the Mac address for the router and it also shows RTS & Fragment as 'off' ..
I have tried pump -i wlan0 with no success, the laptop card configurations all seem ok ..

The laptop wireless works perfectly fine under windows xp pro


What do you think ??

TIA
Wolf

[greywolf19]

it seems that when I disable the WEP then all works just fine ... still no idea why using WEP will cause above problems but .........
wolf