Wireless Networking Disappears!

[hammerstein05]

Yesterday I installed Fedora Core 3 for the first time (having previously had a Slackware 10 installation), I decided to try it as I might get my wireles network up and running.

I am using NDISWRAPPER and have the windows driver installed. I modprobe the card and when I use iwconfig it lists it.

If I use KWIFIMANAGER I can browse and see my wireless essid as I would expect. So, I go back to iwconfig.. do the following;

iwconfig wlan0 enc open XXXXXX...
iwconfig wlan0 essid "myessid"

I do iwconfig, all shows ok.. do it again and the settings are no longer there. I have run the wifi manager at the same time, and sure enough it just disappears.

This morning I started down the route of creating a network configuration script as per some instructions I found as I use DHCP so need to get that all setup. But I was wondering if this was a common problem (it disappearing and all) and if it could be fixed.

Thanks for your time..

[hammerstein05]

Any ideas on this guys?

I have also removed the device configured through creating an ifcfg-wlan0 file and added an adapter through the graphical utilities. If I activate the card, it picks up an IP address (i can see it appear in the KWIFIMANAGER) but the box saying acquiring IP address never goes away, and if I try a netstat -rn it doesn't list my 192.168.2.x network in there ( I did set the gateway to 192.168.2.1) and I definatley can't ping that address.

Am really stuck, and feel that it is one little thing I am missing. Am so close...