help configuring dlink dwl-g650

[oliver]

I've been struggling with this for literally hours now :-/

Firstly, my home network looks like this:

cable-modem (WAN DHCP) ---> router (LAN DHCP/F-W) ---> wireless switch ---> laptop

the wireless switch is really a wireless router with the WAN port disconnected.

The laptop dual boots gentoo and XP and if I use XP, the wireless card (dlink dwl-g650) gets a LAN IP from the router and I can resolve host names on the internet. So, I'm fairly confident my wireless setup and card are OK.

I got the latest madwifi build from cvs, patched it with the 2.6.8 patches and it compiles OK. I can also modprobe wlan, wlan_wep, hal_ath, hal_pci with no problems. I'm trying to use uberlord's wireless-config package and it looks like it's working until it tries to get an IP address and it times out with a msg saying "[dhcpcd] timed out waiting for a valid DHCP server response"
I tried giving it a static IP but it won't talk to the router afterwards.... I also tried configuring via iwconfig with no luck.

Looking on the windows side, I see the following in the settings:

associated bssid = 12:34:56:78 (MAC of wireless switch)
ssid = default
channel = 6
wireless mode = infrastructure
enc = wep
auth mode = shared auth
key = 12121212121212121212121212 (128bit hex key)

does anyone know what I need to put in /etc/conf.d/wireless or is there another way to do this?

My kernel is nitro 2.6.8 r6 and iwconfig etc seems to working so I think it's simply a config issue

Thanks in advance

[oliver]

I decided to try changing the wireless setup and now all is working. I went from restricted authentication to open.... so either the madwifi driver doesn't like restricted or my setup was wrong (the latter is more likely)

Does this now represent a security problem? WEP is still enabled with 128bit hex encyption so I don't think so, but would like some expert opinion.

All I now have in my /etc/conf.d/wireless is:

key_MYNEWESSID="10101010101010101010101010 enc open"

[UberLord]

[oliver]