Please help setting up network connection

Hi
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I am using suse 9.1 and want to use a Siemens Gigaset 11Mbps PCMCIA
Card
to connect to a ap in my home network. Under Windows the connection
works.

I found out that it's a ATMEL card so I installed the ATMEL firmware
rpm
provided by suse and put the following lines at the end of
/etc/pcmcia/atmel-suse.conf

card "Siemens GigaSet ATMEL 11 Mbps PCMCIA Card"
manfid 0x0000, 0x0000
bind "atmel_cs"

I restarted pcmcia and the card seems to be activated but no link to
the ap is made.
the card is next to the ap so the link should be well (and is under
windows)
The card/driver(?) accepts changing the parameters essid and key using
iwconfig, so i think the driver is working.
changing the channel is not possible.
I reconfigured the ap to channel 4 that appears by default.

I thank you in advance for any help.
Leonhard


the tail of /var/log/messages:
*** starting up pcmcia (/etc/init.d/pcmcia start) ***
Sep 11 14:47:06 linux kernel: Linux Kernel Card Services
Sep 11 14:47:06 linux kernel: options: [pci] [cardbus] [pm]
Sep 11 14:47:06 linux kernel: Yenta: CardBus bridge found at
0000:00:0a.0 [103c:0025]
Sep 11 14:47:06 linux kernel: Yenta: Using CSCINT to route CSC
interrupts to PCI
Sep 11 14:47:06 linux kernel: Yenta: Routing CardBus interrupts to PCI
Sep 11 14:47:06 linux kernel: Yenta: ISA IRQ mask 0x0018, PCI irq 7
Sep 11 14:47:06 linux kernel: Socket status: 30000006
Sep 11 14:47:07 linux kernel: Yenta: CardBus bridge found at
0000:00:0a.1 [103c:0025]
Sep 11 14:47:07 linux kernel: Yenta: Using CSCINT to route CSC
interrupts to PCI
Sep 11 14:47:07 linux kernel: Yenta: Routing CardBus interrupts to PCI
Sep 11 14:47:07 linux kernel: Yenta: ISA IRQ mask 0x0018, PCI irq 7
Sep 11 14:47:07 linux kernel: Socket status: 30000006
Sep 11 14:47:07 linux cardmgr[5601]: watching 2 sockets
Sep 11 14:47:07 linux kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0c00-0x0cff: clean.
Sep 11 14:47:07 linux kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0820-0x08ff: clean.
Sep 11 14:47:07 linux kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0800-0x080f: clean.
Sep 11 14:47:07 linux kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x03e0-0x04ff:
excluding 0x408-0x40f 0x480-0x48f 0x4d0-0x4d7
Sep 11 14:47:07 linux kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0100-0x03af:
excluding 0x200-0x207 0x220-0x22f 0x330-0x337 0x388-0x38f
Sep 11 14:47:07 linux kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0a00-0x0aff: clean.
*** inserting the card ***
Sep 11 14:47:35 linux kernel: cs: memory probe 0xa0000000-0xa0ffffff:
clean.
Sep 11 14:47:35 linux cardmgr[5602]: socket 1: Siemens GigaSet ATMEL
11 Mbps PCMCIA Card
Sep 11 14:47:35 linux kernel: eth1: MAC address 00:01:e3:05:96:02
Sep 11 14:47:35 linux kernel: eth1: Atmel at76c50x wireless. Version
0.91 (E-Mail Removed)
Sep 11 14:47:35 linux kernel: eth1: index 0x01: Vcc 3.3, irq 3, io
0x0100-0x011f
Sep 11 14:47:35 linux ifup-wireless: command 'iwconfig eth1 nick
linux' returned
Sep 11 14:47:35 linux ifup-wireless: Error for wireless request "Set
Nickname" (8B1C) :
Sep 11 14:47:35 linux ifup-wireless: SET failed on device eth1 ;
Operation not supported.
Sep 11 14:47:35 linux ifup-wireless: command 'iwconfig eth1 channel 6'
returned
Sep 11 14:47:35 linux ifup-wireless: Error for wireless request "Set
Frequency" (8B04) :
Sep 11 14:47:36 linux ifup-wireless: SET failed on device eth1 ;
Invalid argument.
Sep 11 14:47:36 linux kernel: eth1: card type is unknown: assuming
at76c502 firmware is OK.
Sep 11 14:47:36 linux kernel: eth1: if not, use the firmware= module
parameter.
Sep 11 14:47:46 linux kernel: eth1: no IPv6 routers present


iwconfig eth1 prints
eth1 IEEE 802.11-DS ESSID:"vogt"
Mode:Managed Channel:4 Access Point: FF:00:00:00:00:00
Bit Rate:11Mb/s
Retry min limit:7 RTS thrff Fragment thrff
Encryption key:xxxx-xxxx-xx Security mode:restricted
Power Managementff
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

ifconfig eth1 prints
eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:01:E3:05:96:02
inet6 addr: fe80::201:e3ff:fe05:9602/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:22 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
Interrupt:3 Base address:0x100

the ifcfg-eth1 file:
WIRELESS="yes"

WIRELESS_MODE="Managed"

WIRELESS_ESSID="vogt"

WIRELESS_NICK=""

WIRELESS_NWID=""

IRELESS_FREQ=""

WIRELESS_CHANNEL="6"

WIRELESS_SENS=""

WIRELESS_RATE=""

WIRELESS_KEY="xxxxxxxxxx"

WIRELESS_RTS=""

WIRELESS_FRAG=""

WIRELESS_IWCONFIG_OPTIONS=""

WIRELESS_IWSPY_OPTIONS=""

WIRELESS_IWPRIV_OPTIONS=""

BOOTPROTO='dhcp'

MTU=''

REMOTE_IPADDR=''

STARTMODE='hotplug'