redhat 9 and smc usb 2662w

I have been trying to get this up and just dont know what I am missing. I
have done make and make install (no errors, kernel source installed) on
redhat 9 with the stock kernel. I can get the smc (I have two other atmel
based usb linksys usb11 v2.6 same results) to work flawless in managed
mode buy adding

ifconfig wlan0 up ; iwconfig wlan0 mode managed ; iwconfig wlan0 essid
linksys ; iwconfig wlan0 nick dell1 ; iwconfig wlan0 channel 6 ; ifconfig
wlan0 192.168.1.135

to my start commands using webmin. I can run it for days without any
problems with great range. I am using a linksys wireless router that has
the ssid "linksys". I want to run ad-hoc as this box is a server. I can
ping the router at 192.168.1.1 with no packet loss but cannot get the
linux box online. when I remove the "mode managed" I dont have any
connectivy at all. If I do "mode ad-hoc" this to doesnt work. I tried
naming my "nameserver"in resolv config to 192.168.1.1, didnt help any.

my dmesg is as fallows (sorry for the size, I really hope this sheds some
sort of light on my issue)

Linux version 2.4.20-8 ([email protected]) (gcc version
3.2.2 20030222 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.2-5)) #1 Thu Mar 13 17:54:28 EST 2003
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
 BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 00000000000a0000 (usable)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 0000000000f00000 (usable)
 BIOS-e820: 0000000001000000 - 0000000020000000 (usable)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000ffe00000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
0MB HIGHMEM available.
512MB LOWMEM available.
On node 0 totalpages: 131072
zone(0): 4096 pages.
zone(1): 126976 pages.
zone(2): 0 pages.
Kernel command line: ro root=LABEL=/ hdc=ide-scsi
ide_setup: hdc=ide-scsi
Initializing CPU#0
Detected 598.514 MHz processor.
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 1192.75 BogoMIPS
Memory: 510392k/524288k available (1347k kernel code, 10312k reserved,
999k data, 132k init, 0k highmem)
Dentry cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
Inode cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Mount cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
Buffer-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Page-cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K
CPU: L2 cache: 512K
CPU serial number disabled.
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
CPU:     After generic, caps: 0383f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU:             Common caps: 0383f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: Intel Pentium III (Katmai) stepping 03
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
mtrr: v1.40 (20010327) Richard Gooch ([email protected])
mtrr: detected mtrr type: Intel
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfcaee, last bus=2
PCI: Using configuration type 1
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
PCI: Using IRQ router PIIX [8086/7110] at 00:07.0
Limiting direct PCI/PCI transfers.
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
Initializing RT netlink socket
apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.16)
Starting kswapd
VFS: Disk quotas vdquot_6.5.1
pty: 2048 Unix98 ptys configured
Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT
SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI ISAPNP enabled
Real Time Clock Driver v1.10e
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a National Semiconductor PC87306
NET4: Frame Diverter 0.46
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size 1024 blocksize
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00beta-2.4
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
PIIX4: IDE controller at PCI slot 00:07.1
PIIX4: chipset revision 1
PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
    ide0: BM-DMA at 0xffa0-0xffa7, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
    ide1: BM-DMA at 0xffa8-0xffaf, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA
hda: ST380023A, ATA DISK drive
blk: queue c03c9f40, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
hdc: LITE-ON LTR-24102M, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hdd: HITACHI CDR-8130, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: host protected area => 1
hda: 156301488 sectors (80026 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=9729/255/63, UDMA(33)
ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide
Partition check:
 hda: hda1 hda2 hda3
ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide
md: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
md: autorun ...
md: ... autorun DONE.
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP
IP: routing cache hash table of 4096 buckets, 32Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 131072 bind 65536)
Linux IP multicast router 0.06 plus PIM-SM
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
Freeing initrd memory: 146k freed
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
Journalled Block Device driver loaded
kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 132k freed
usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs
usb.c: registered new driver hub
usb-uhci.c: $Revision: 1.275 $ time 17:59:01 Mar 13 2003
usb-uhci.c: High bandwidth mode enabled
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:07.2
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 00:11.0
usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xdce0, IRQ 11
usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 2 ports detected
usb-uhci.c: v1.275:USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver
usb.c: registered new driver hiddev
usb.c: registered new driver hid
hid-core.c: v1.8.1 Andreas Gal, Vojtech Pavlik <[email protected]>
hid-core.c: USB HID support drivers
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
hub.c: new USB device 00:07.2-2, assigned address 2
usb.c: USB device 2 (vend/prod 0xd5c/0xa001) is not claimed by any active
driver.
EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on ide0(3,2), internal journal
Adding Swap: 1044216k swap-space (priority -1)
usbdfu.c: USB Device Firmware Upgrade (DFU) handler v0.11
usb.c: registered new driver usbdfu
at76c503.c: Generic Atmel at76c503/at76c505 routines v0.11
at76c503-i3861.c: Atmel at76c503 (Intersil 3861) Wireless LAN Driver v0.11
usbdfu.c: Downloading firmware for USB device 2...
usb.c: registered new driver at76c503-i3861
usb-uhci.c: interrupt, status 2, frame# 1077
usbdevfs: USBDEVFS_CONTROL failed dev 2 rqt 128 rq 6 len 18 ret -84
usbdevfs: USBDEVFS_CONTROL failed dev 2 rqt 128 rq 6 len 18 ret -84
usb.c: USB disconnect on device 00:07.2-2 address 2
hub.c: new USB device 00:07.2-2, assigned address 3
at76c503.c: $Id: at76c503.c,v 1.35 2003/07/30 06:31:51 jal2 Exp $ compiled
Feb  9 2004 12:00:57
at76c503.c: firmware version 0.90.0 #44 (fcs_len 4)
at76c503.c: device's MAC 00:04:e2:1b:98:98, regulatory domain FCC (U.S)
(id 16)
divert: allocating divert_blk for wlan0
at76c503.c: registered wlan0
kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on ide0(3,1), internal journal
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
hdd: ATAPI 16X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache, DMA
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12
SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices
  Vendor: LITE-ON   Model: LTR-24102M        Rev: 4DS3
  Type:   CD-ROM                             ANSI SCSI revision: 02
ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team
ip_conntrack version 2.1 (4096 buckets, 32768 max) - 292 bytes per conntrack
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:11.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 00:07.2
3c59x: Donald Becker and others. www.scyld.com/network/vortex.html
See Documentation/networking/vortex.txt
00:11.0: 3Com PCI 3c905B Cyclone 100baseTx at 0xdc00. Vers LK1.1.18-ac
 00:c0:4f:1e:ab:d0, IRQ 11
  product code b430 rev 00.9 date 07-03-97
  Internal config register is 1800000, transceivers 0xa.
  8K byte-wide RAM 5:3 Rx:Tx split, autoselect/Autonegotiate interface.
  MII transceiver found at address 24, status 7849.
  Enabling bus-master transmits and whole-frame receives.
00:11.0: scatter/gather enabled. h/w checksums enabled
divert: allocating divert_blk for eth0
lp: driver loaded but no devices found
at76c503.c: using BSSID 02:00:5b:cb:b3:02

If I remove "ifconfig wlan0 192.168.1.135" I do not get assigned a ip via
dhcp. I can plug in a cat 5 and recieve dhcp rite away on boot. I have
tried every atmel related trick I can find. Before redhat 9 came out I had
no issues setting up. I have reinstalled at least 10 times now, updated
kernel or not updated I end up in the same boot, no ad-hoc. Has anyone set
up redhat 9 using ad-hoc with success? I would love to know the secret.


Thanks in advance
Brian