Morphix wireless unoperative - using netgear 802.11b

[Waverider]

I'm having some difficulty bringing up a network with Morphix using a Netgear 16bit 802.11b card, model MA401.
With the card plugged in, the link light on the card stays lit and the link monitor in my panel reads a good 70% signal strength when set to monitor device eth1.
Since I was having a hard time figuring out what command should be run to make diagnostics, I set eth1 to be start on boot and below are the relavent results of dmesg:
..........
usb-uhci.c: v1.275:USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver
Linux Kernel Card Services 3.1.22
options: [pci] [cardbus] [pm]
ds: no socket drivers loaded!
unloading Kernel Card Services
Linux Kernel Card Services 3.1.22
options: [pci] [cardbus] [pm]
PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 00:0a.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 00:0d.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 01:00.0
Yenta IRQ list 08b0, PCI irq9
Socket status: 30000010
apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.16)
uhci.c: USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v1.1
ttyS1: LSR safety check engaged!
ttyS1: LSR safety check engaged!
ttyS1: LSR safety check engaged!
Intel PCIC probe: not found.
cs: IO port probe 0x0c00-0x0cff: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x0820-0x08ff: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x0800-0x080f: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x0100-0x04ff: excluding 0x398-0x39f 0x4d0-0x4d7
cs: IO port probe 0x0a00-0x0aff: clean.
cs: memory probe 0xa0000000-0xa0ffffff: clean.
orinoco.c 0.13e (David Gibson <hermes@gibson.dropbear.id.au> and others)
orinoco_cs.c 0.13e (David Gibson <hermes@gibson.dropbear.id.au> and others)
eth1: Station identity 001f:0006:0001:0003
eth1: Looks like an Intersil firmware version 1.3.6
eth1: Ad-hoc demo mode supported
eth1: IEEE standard IBSS ad-hoc mode supported
eth1: WEP supported, 104-bit key
eth1: MAC address 00:09:5B:29:8D:A4
eth1: Station name "Prism I"
eth1: ready
eth1: index 0x01: Vcc 5.0, irq 5, io 0x0100-0x013f
eth1: New link status: Connected (0001)
eth1: New link status: Connected (0001)
bash-2.05b#

Right now I just inserted the card and the link shows 68%. Here is what I get when I try to start the network.
bash-2.05b# ifup eth1
/bin/sh: line 1: bootpc: command not found
bash-2.05b#

If you have any ideas I'd sure appreciate it.

Thanks
-Noah

[Waverider]

Well I don't know if this will assist in discovering a solution but I've tried to do a little more investigation.
I have two network devices: eth0, the ethernet line; eth1, the wireless card.

After a normal bootup I plug in the wireless card. The signal monitor shows 100% signal strength (monitoring eth1). This is the result of a network startup:

bash-2.05b# /etc/init.d/networking restart
Reconfiguring network interfaces... cat: /var/run/dhclient.eth1.pid: No such file or directory
Internet Software Consortium DHCP Client 2.0pl5
Copyright 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999 The Internet Software Consortium.
All rights reserved.

Please contribute if you find this software useful.
For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/dhcp-contrib.html

Listening on LPF/eth1/00:09:5b:29:8d:a4
Sending on LPF/eth1/00:09:5b:29:8d:a4
Sending on Socket/fallback/fallback-net
DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8
DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 14
DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 12
DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 11
DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 15
No DHCPOFFERS received.
No working leases in persistent database.

Sleeping.

done.

Now I unplug the card and plug in the ethernet line. This is the result:

bash-2.05b# ifup eth0
Internet Software Consortium DHCP Client 2.0pl5
Copyright 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999 The Internet Software Consortium.
All rights reserved.

Please contribute if you find this software useful.
For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/dhcp-contrib.html

Listening on LPF/eth0/00:b0:d0:51:25:c5
Sending on LPF/eth0/00:b0:d0:51:25:c5
Sending on Socket/fallback/fallback-net
DHCPREQUEST on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
DHCPACK from 129.107.25.252
SIOCADDRT: File exists
bound to 129.107.25.17 -- renewal in 86400 seconds.
bash-2.05b#


Could anyone explain to me why the wireless network (eth1) won't start? I can run the card on the network fine in windows and I have used in linux long ago when I was running Mandrake9.1
Currently this is Morphix 0.4-1.

I appreciate any advice!

-Noah