Tried everything, can't connect to WAP

[flamesrock]

I'm an absolute newb to wireless, so hopefully one of you experts can show me to the light.

First, went through:
http://es.gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Wireless

My wireless card is working, and I managed to get it to recognize the wap by doing an iwconfig manually on the CL, but I can't seem to connect? Could anyone give me an example /etc/conf.d/wireless? Will it automatically load on startup?

Here are the specs:
It has a 128bit WEP key (in hex I think, string of numbers and letters)
I want to specify the MAC (necessary, right?)
the interface is eth1
default gw is 192.168.1.1 and I would like to have a static IP of 192.168.1.30 (if possible, dhcp is also OK)
I'd like it load at startup, by default even if eth0 (wired) is available.

Alternatively, if anyone could offer an example /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf for these specs, I would appreciate it equally!


-thanks in advance for any help
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[funkyrikg]

Here are the tests I would try once you have the card started up from the command line:

1) Ping the wireless router on its IP addy from the command line

[flamesrock]

Thanks! Unforunately, not working yet.

I tested by pinging 192.168.1.1 (after updating eth1 with ifconfig) and got:
PING 192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1) 56(84) bytes of data
From 192.168.1.30 icmp_seq=2 Destination Host Unreachable
From 192.168.1.30 icmp_seq=3 Destination Host Unreachable
From 192.168.1.30 icmp_seq=4 Destination Host Unreachable
From 192.168.1.30 icmp_seq=6 Destination Host Unreachable
From 192.168.1.30 icmp_seq=7 Destination Host Unreachable
From 192.168.1.30 icmp_seq=8 Destination Host Unreachable
...

Also, rc-update add net.eth1 default gave me this message:
/sbin/rc-update: /etc/init.d/net.eth1 not found; aborting.

Any ideas?

Thanks
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