DWL-122 usb observations

A few weeks ago I updated a laptop from Slackware 10.0 to 10.1 and
switched to a 2.6.x kernel.  Prior to the upgrade, the wlan-ng drivers
worked perfectly.  Following the upgrade I was getting the error:

> /etc/init.d/wlan: line 131: prism2_fwload: command not found
> Firmware failed to load for device wlan0

which has been posted before on this list.

I did configure /etc/modules.conf to account for wlan0 prism2_usb.

After compiling the latest 2.6.x kernel at the time and then the latest
wlan-ng release, this still did not solve the problem.  What did work
was dropping back to the 2.4.29 kernel.  I figured it was a kernel
related issue.

I upgraded ubuntu ppc from warty to hoary which moved me to the 2.6.11
kernel.  I figured I would have the same problem with the wlan-ng and of
course did.  But I was not conent to leave it there.

After doing some more testing I found that, yes, the drives do work, but
the scripts to initialize the drivers do not.  I can manually configure
the device for my network, but simply relying on the configured
wlancfg-???? was not cutting it.  I have tried with both wep enabled and
disabled.

This is the script I currently use:

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#/bin/bash
#/etc/init.d/rc.wlan start

#source /etc/wlan/wlancfg-gehenna
  rmmod prism2_usb
modprobe prism2_usb prism2_doreset=1


wlanctl-ng wlan0 lnxreq_ifstate ifstate=enable

wlanctl-ng wlan0 dot11req_mibset mibattribute=dot11WEPDefaultKeyID=0
wlanctl-ng wlan0 dot11req_mibset mibattribute=dot11PrivacyInvoked=true
wlanctl-ng wlan0 dot11req_mibset
mibattribute=dot11WEPDefaultKey0=xx:xx:xx:xx:xx

wlanctl-ng wlan0 lnxreq_autojoin ssid="gehenna" authtype=sharedkey

dhclient3 wlan0

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I plan on loading up Sarge on a laptop in the very near future and
expect to run into the same issues I have experienced in the past.

I am inclined to think there is an issue here with the config scripts or
possibly a command/parameter that is broken moving to the 2.6.x kernels.
    I post this in hopes to possibly provide some more clues in
ferreting out the problem.



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