Wireless Woe - Please Help

I'm trying to connect my pc to my router unsuccessfully for a couple of
days now and have run out of ideas. Perhaps somebody can help me along.

I'm using a linksys WMP54G PCI card; the router is a linksys WRT54G. My
OS is debian based Elive 1.0 (GEM) which uses a 2.6.18 linux kernel.

Here's what i've done so far:

Initially i tried the out of the box native rt61 driver pre-installed by
Elive, which did not work at all (the wmp54g couldn't see the router).
Next i used ndiswrapper. This would seem to have been reasonably
successful. The driver and PCI card seem to be working and can see my
router. I've put the outputs of

1. $ lshw -C network
2. $ ifconfig
3. $ iwlist wlan0 scan
4. $ iwconfig

at the end of this posting. However when i try to connect with

$ dhclient wlan0

all i get is:


sit0: unknown hardware address type 776
sit0: unknown hardware address type 776
Listening on LPF/wlan0/00:1d:7e:05:92:05
Sending on LPF/wlan0/00:1d:7e:05:92:05
Sending on Socket/fallback/fallback-net
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 4
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 5
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 9
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 14
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 12
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 16
No DHCPOFFERS received.
No working leases in persistent database.

Sleeping.


This is while trying to connect to an unencrypted network! So the
problem has nothing (yet) to do with wpa.

Any help appreciated. Here are the outputs mentioned above:

1. $lshw - C network


*-network:0
description: Wireless interface
product: RT2561/RT61 802.11g PCI
vendor: RaLink
physical id: 9
bus info: pci@02:09.0
logical name: wlan0
version: 00
serial: 00:1d:7e:05:92:05
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=ndiswrapper
driverversion=1.28 firmware=Linksys, A Division of Cisco Sy latency=64
link=yes multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11g
resources: iomemory:fe1e8000-fe1effff irq:201
*-network:1
description: Ethernet interface
product: RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+
vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
physical id: a
bus info: pci@02:0a.0
logical name: eth0
version: 10
serial: 00:08:54:40:14:26
size: 100MB/s
capacity: 100MB/s
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp mii 10bt
10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd autonegotiation
configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=8139too
driverversion=0.9.27 duplex=full ip=192.168.1.105 latency=64 link=yes
maxlatency=64 mingnt=32 multicast=yes port=MII speed=100MB/s
resources: ioport:e800-e8ff iomemory:fe1e7c00-fe1e7cff irq:169


2. $ ifconfig


eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:08:54:40:14:26
inet addr:192.168.1.105 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::208:54ff:fe40:1426/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:49 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:20 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:4156 (4.0 KiB) TX bytes:2092 (2.0 KiB)
Interrupt:169 Base address:0xe800

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1D:7E:05:92:05
inet6 addr: fe80::21d:7eff:fe05:9205/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:117 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:117 errors:0 dropped:12 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:13221 (12.9 KiB) TX bytes:16029 (15.6 KiB)
Interrupt:201 Memory:fe1e8000-fe1f0000


3. $ iwlist wlan0 scan


wlan0 Scan completed :
Cell 01 - Address: 00:14:BF:37:2C:00
ESSID:"Meinert"
Protocol:IEEE 802.11g
Mode:Managed
Frequency:2.462 GHz (Channel 11)
Quality:54/100 Signal level:-61 dBm Noise
level:-96 dBm
Encryption key:on
Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s
24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s; 9 Mb/s
12 Mb/s; 48 Mb/s
Extra:bcn_int=100
Extra:atim=0
IE: WPA Version 1
Group Cipher : TKIP
Pairwise Ciphers (1) : TKIP
Authentication Suites (1) : PSK
Cell 02 - Address: 00:04:0E:D8:DB:23
ESSID:""
Protocol:IEEE 802.11g
Mode:Managed
Frequency:2.462 GHz (Channel 11)
Quality:23/100 Signal level:-81 dBm Noise
level:-96 dBm
Encryption key:on
Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 22 Mb/s
6 Mb/s; 9 Mb/s; 12 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s; 24 Mb/s
36 Mb/s; 48 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s
Extra:bcn_int=100
Extra:atim=0
IE: WPA Version 1
Group Cipher : TKIP
Pairwise Ciphers (1) : TKIP
Authentication Suites (1) : PSK
Cell 03 - Address: 00:12:BF:E8:AB:C5
ESSID:"Michis Netzwerk"
Protocol:IEEE 802.11g
Mode:Managed
Frequency:2.472 GHz (Channel 13)
Quality:70/100 Signal level:-51 dBm Noise
level:-96 dBm
Encryption key:on
Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s
12 Mb/s; 24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s; 9 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s
48 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s
Extra:bcn_int=100
Extra:atim=0
IE: IEEE 802.11i/WPA2 Version 1
Group Cipher : TKIP
Pairwise Ciphers (2) : TKIP CCMP
Authentication Suites (1) : PSK
IE: WPA Version 1
Group Cipher : TKIP
Pairwise Ciphers (2) : TKIP CCMP
Authentication Suites (1) : PSK


4. $ iwconfig


wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"Meinert"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.462 GHz Access Point:
00:14:BF:37:2C:00
Bit Rate:54 Mb/s Tx-Power:20 dBm Sensitivity=-121 dBm
RTS thr:2347 B Fragment thr:2346 B
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality:54/100 Signal level:-61 dBm Noise level:-96 dBm
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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