Netgear WG511 will not start at startup

Machine : Compaq Presario R3000 (R3213EA) 32 bit laptop
Distro : Fedora 2.6.10-1.766_FC3

History
I have been using / installing Linux for only a month or so, so I
am still very new to all of this.
I have been trying to get a Netgear WG511 (made in China) to work for
the last few days, but have no success at all. So I gave up with that
one and tried one made in Taiwan with immediate success and after a
short while I was up and running.

However on restarting I get
SIOCSIFHWADDR input/output error
SIOCSIFFLAGS no such directory or file
or something close

When I open a terminal as root
# ifconfig eth1 up
switch's on but not connecting to router

# iwconfig eth1
eth1 IEEE 802.11b/g ESSID:"NETGEAR"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.462GHz Access Point: 00:09:5B:70:94:EE
Bit Rate:54Mb/s Tx-Power=31 dBm Sensitivity=20/200
Retry min limit:8 RTS thr:2347 B Fragment thr:2346 B
Encryption keyff
Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
not working yet

# dhclient eth1
<snip>
sit0: unknown hardware address type 776
sit0: unknown hardware address type 776
Listening on LPF/eth1/00:09:5b:84:a0:c2
Sending on LPF/eth1/00:09:5b:84:a0:c2
Sending on Socket/fallback
DHCPREQUEST on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
DHCPACK from 192.168.0.1
bound to 192.168.0.2 -- renewal in 118287 seconds.

now I am up and running



# cat /proc/interrupts
<snip>
10: 139446 XT-PIC ATI IXP, ATI IXP Modem, ohci_hcd, yenta, yenta, eth1,
radeon<at>pci:0000:01:05.0
<snip>

IRQ 10 looks overloaded possibility of a conflict,
yenta is running twice is this normal or do I have some residue from the
other card. The BIOS is totally useless, apart from setting date/time
and disabling the parallel port (done) that's about it.


/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1
DEVICE=eth1
BOOTPROTO=none
ONBOOT=yes
TYPE=wireless
USERCTL=yes
PEERDNS=yes
IPV6INIT=no
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
IPADDR=192.168.0.10
MACADDR=00:09:5b:84:a0:c2
GATEWAY=10.0.0.2
CHANNEL=11
I have messed about with this quite a bit over the last few days
this is as it is at this moment.


I put this line into "/etc/modprobe.conf"
alias eth1 islpci_cb
I cannot find any module, file or any other reference to
islpci_cb anywhere on this computer is this correct.