DWL 510 wireless problems

[Mike1767]

I've been trying to get this card to work for over a week now to no avail. It seems to install without any problems using ndiswrapper (I've tried both in terminal and through the command centre). The card shows up (ndiswrapper -l lists the card and says that device and driver are present) but not with the settings I gave it.

iwconfig

lists mode as auto, essid as off/any and key as off.
When I do

iwconfig wlan0 key restricted <key>

the key changes to the correct settings, but then when i try to change the essid, channel or mode they don't change and the key settings reset to off. I've tried every possible order of these commands. If need be I can post the actual code here, it'll just take a bit of work.
I'm obviously a newbie so I appologize for any glaring mistakes I've made so far, although I swear I tried every possible thing I've read about this problem.

[stokes]

This is the order I do it in:

#take wired connection down
ifconfig eth0 down

#set connection to managed mode 
iwconfig wlan0 mode Managed

#specify essid for wlan
iwconfig wlan0 essid cupotea

#set IP address
ifconfig wlan0 192.168.2.8

#add default gateway for Internet access
route add default gw 192.168.2.1

#add wep encryption
iwconfig wlan0 key restricted <key>

I don't have a DWL 510 but this works for me. Hope this helps

[psic]

I also installed my card with Ndiswrapper, but as I don't use any encriptyon (just MAC filtering), the only thing I have to define is the ssid. After that, I just run dhclient. One question: does the card pickup any networks? WIth maybe the kde Kwifimanager?