inventel usb dongle and fedora core 3

hi all,
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I'm trying to have my usb wireless dongle (Inventel, based upon an atmel
at76C503 chipset ) work under fedora core 3.
My machine is a bi-pentium 3 with an asus P2B-DS motherboard
I have successively installed both the sourceforge and the berlios =
drivers
None worked !
The final error is always the same : Definition of IP informations for
wlan0. failed.
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Here are the results for the berlios driver, the last I installed. The
driver compiles and install OK.
lsmod returns
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 at76c503_rfmd          46468  0
 at76c503               81760  1 at76c503_rfmd
 at76_usbdfu             9220  1 at76c503
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In the modprobe.conf file, I added :=20
alias wlan0 at76c503-rfmd
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iwconfig returns :
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 lo        no wireless extensions.
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 sit0      no wireless extensions.
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 wlan0     IEEE 802.11-DS  ESSID:"DW-B-200-xxxx"  Nickname:"popeye"
           Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.472GHz  Access Point: =
00:00:00:00:00:00
           Bit Rate=3D11Mb/s   Tx-Power=3D15 dBm
           Retry limit:8   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
           Encryption key:xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xx   Security
mode:restricted
           Power Management:off
           Link Quality:0/0  Signal level:45/255  Noise level:0/0
           Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
           Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0
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 The iwconfig man page indicates that an access point address of  =
00:00...
indicates that the 'association between the dongle and the access =
failed.
 Therefore I reviewed the dongle parameters with iwlist
 The results are as follows:
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[root@popeye ~]# iwlist wlan0 scan
wlan0     Failed to read scan data : Resource temporarily unavailable
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[root@popeye ~]# iwlist wlan0 freq
 wlan0     14 channels in total;=20
 available frequencies :
          Channel 01 : 2.412 GHz
          Channel 02 : 2.417 GHz
          Channel 03 : 2.422 GHz
          Channel 04 : 2.427 GHz
          Channel 05 : 2.432 GHz
          Channel 06 : 2.437 GHz
          Channel 07 : 2.442 GHz
          Channel 08 : 2.447 GHz
          Channel 09 : 2.452 GHz
          Channel 10 : 2.457 GHz
          Channel 11 : 2.462 GHz
          Channel 12 : 2.467 GHz
          Channel 13 : 2.472 GHz
          Current Channel:11
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[root@popeye ~]# iwlist wlan0 bitrate
 wlan0     4 available bit-rates :
          1Mb/s
          2Mb/s
          5.5Mb/s
          11Mb/s
          Current Bit Rate:11Mb/s
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[root@popeye ~]# iwlist wlan0 encryption
 wlan0     2 key sizes : 40, 104bits
          4 keys available :
                [1]: off
                [2]: off
                [3]: off
                [4]: off
          Current Transmit Key: [1]
          Security mode:open
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[root@popeye ~]# iwlist wlan0 key
 wlan0     2 key sizes : 40, 104bits
          4 keys available :
                [1]: off
                [2]: off
                [3]: off
                [4]: off
          Current Transmit Key: [1]
          Security mode:open
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[root@popeye ~]# iwlist wlan0 power
 wlan0     Current mode:off
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[root@popeye ~]# iwlist wlan0 txpower
 wlan0     1 available transmit-powers :
          15 dBm        (31 mW)
          Current Tx-Power=3D15 dBm       (31 mW)
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[root@popeye ~]# iwlist wlan0 retry
 wlan0     Fixed limit    ;  min limit:1
                            max limit:255
          Current mode:on
                  limit:8
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[root@popeye ~]# iwlist wlan0 ap
 wlan0     Interface doesn't have a list of Peers/Access-Points
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[root@popeye ~]# iwlist wlan0 event
 wlan0     Wireless Events supported :
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Then I played with the various parameters with iwconfig.
Nothing worked: I always recover the null address for the access point =
at
the end !
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I tried to use Fedora graphical tool for network settings, with no =
better
result: I can't activate the dongle
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Finally, here is the content of ifcfg-wlan0:
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 # Please read /usr/share/doc/initscripts-*/sysconfig.txt
 # for the documentation of these parameters.
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IPV6INIT=3Dno
ONBOOT=3Dno
USERCTL=3Dno
PEERDNS=3Dyes
GATEWAY=3D
TYPE=3DWireless
DEVICE=3Dwlan0
HWADDR=3D00:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
BOOTPROTO=3Ddhcp
NETMASK=3D
DHCP_HOSTNAME=3Dpopeye
IPADDR=3D
DOMAIN=3D
ESSID=3DDW-B-200-xxxxx
AP=3Dxx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
KEY=3D0xXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
KEY=3Dopen
CHANNEL=3D11
MODE=3DManaged
RATE=3DAuto
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ps : the association of the dongle doesn't work any better is I use a =
fixed
addressing using the masks and address given by MS-Windows, under which =
my
wireless dongle works fine !!!!
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I stuck, now :-) ! Could someone suggest me an issue, other than =
throwing
away both the dongle and the access point to buy something working under
Linux ???
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Yves Maurin
Equipe "Analyse et Mod=E9lisation en Imagerie Biologique"
Neurobiologie de l'Olfaction & de la Prise Alimentaire
INRA - Domaine de Vilvert
78352 Jouy en Josas
Tel/Fax +33 1 34 65 24 14 / 25 05
http://amib.jouy.inra.fr <http://amib.jouy.inra.fr/>=20
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