WEP on Atmel USB adaptor?

I'm trying to get WEP running on a Belkin F5D6050.

I'm using the sourceforge atmel source snapshot 20030613, driver
usbvnetr. The corresponding belkin pcmcia card works from the
same snapshot. I sucked down version 26 of iwconfig source.

I'm using kernel 2.4.22-rc2, trying both rh80 and rh90. uhci usb.
CONFIG_NET_RADIO, CONFIG_NET_PCMCIA_RADIO, and CONFIG_NET_WIRELESS
are all set to 'y'.

Here's /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1:

DEVICE=eth1
BOOTPROTO=static
BROADCAST=192.168.2.255
IPADDR=192.168.2.2
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
NETWORK=192.168.2.0
ONBOOT=no
MODE=Managed
ESSID=TheConstruct
RATE=Auto
KEY=........
CHANNEL=0

The ap works with a linksys prismII card and with an adm8211 card and
with the belkin pcmcia card. The Belkin pcmcia card uses the ifcfg-eth1
above successfully.

When I plug in the USB adaptor, it comes up with a key 0000-0000-00.

I've managed to get the driver to accept a 128b key by running iwconfig
by hand if I invoke magic appropriately, which is to say "sometimes but
not always", but the key that iwconfig reports afterwards isn't the key
I've told it I want.

That wouldn't be so bad if it worked, but it doesn't. The output of
iwconfig looks OK except for the key (all zeros and wrong length,
or right length but wrong non-zero value); and the output of ifconfig
also seems correct. Pings to the ap fail in either case.

The messages reported in /var/log/messages imply that the adaptor has
associated itself with the ap correctly, but there's no indication
that the key has been set correctly.

I haven't tried turning off WEP on the ap, so I can't guarantee that
only WEP is keeping the usb adaptor from completing the link, but it
looks that way from /var/log/messages. Whether or not there are other
problems, WEP isn't working.

Can anyone provide hints on getting WEP running on this device? I
gather that functionally it is the same as the Netgear MA102 and
SMC2662W.

I can provide /var/log/messages output and the output of iwconfig
and ifconfig if that would help, but I suspect that this is a well-
known problem, ie that I'm doing something stupid, or that the magic
isn't documented, so that details aren't necessary.

On a related issue, I see in the archives that various people successfully
use lvnet to configure WEP by hand. When I run lvnet, it returns immediately
without painting the window or issuing an error message. I have ncurses
and the ncurses development packages installed on both rh80 and rh90 -
in fact I installed "everything", although I deleted a number of Asian-
language packages and (ahem) *emacs. Initially it posted errors to syslog
saying that it couldn't find net-pf-4 and net-pf-5, but I aliased those
to "off" in modules.conf following a suggestion I found on the net. Now
it fails silently.

Can anyone suggest a reason that might explain why lvnet is behaving this way?

As a third point, I see that lvnet source uses SIOCDEVPRIVATE to get and
set WEP, and that iwconfig source uses the public ioctls. That is, lvnet
successfully sets WEP using private ioctls, and iwconfig appears to fail
using wireless extensions ioctls. Or to put it yet another way, unless I'm
badly confused - wouldn't be the first time - there's no commonality between
the way that lvnet and iwconfig respectively succeed and fail at setting WEP.
Which is to say that the fact that lvnet sets WEP successfully doesn't say
that it's possible to set WEP successfully using iwconfig.

Is this just an odd coincidence, and (OK, I admit it) my incompetence with
iwconfig?

Has anyone successfully gotten WEP to work with the USB adaptors using
iwconfig? If so, could you publish your magic? I haven't done an exhaustive
search of the archives, but I've spent several hours browsing, and if anyone's
posted a recipe recently, I've missed it.

				Thanks, Jim Snyder
				jhs-/9LpXTI/t6JWk0Htik3J/[email protected]