Getting wi and wicontrol under control

Hello,

I'm currently running RELEASE-4.5 on a Compaq Armada E500 with a Compaq
WL110 802.11b card.  I'm using a slightly modified GENERIC kernel (for sound
support and WINE).  The notebook also has an integrated 10/100 NIC

I can' seem to figure out how to use my wireless card.  I seem to have wi
working properly.  Using wicontrol, I can set the WEP key, network name,
etc., and using an X wi tool, I get the appropriate signal strength (i.e. I
seem to be connected on the MAC level).

Here are the problems:

1. I can't seem to figure out how to use dhclient to obtain an IP address -
typing in dhclient returns "cannot bind address"  Also, if I use ifconfig to
manually assign an address, it doesn't seem to "stick", and still can't ping
any addresses.

2. All of the wicontrol settings are lost when I restart the PC.  I need to
type them in every time to get signal.

3. pccardd doesn't seem to recognize the card until the "network setup:
hostname" portion of the boot sequence.

Any ideas on any of the problems?


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