wireless problems: acx100

[Stewart C. Russell]

I have two wireless cardbus cards: an SMC 2435W, and a D-Link DWL-650+. 
Both, annoyingly, have the same ACX100 chipset.

I've installed the driver module (<http://acx100.sourceforge.net/>) and 
the firmware (<http://www.houseofcraig.net/acx100_howto.php>) for the 
card, but so far, no joy.

What I get from iwconfig with either card, after setting the ESSID and 
128-bit WEP key:

eth1      IEEE 802.11b+  ESSID:"linksys"  Nickname:"acx100 v0.2.0pre7"
           Mode:Managed  Channel:6  Access Point: 00:06:25:E7:C4:C1
           Bit Rate:11Mb/s   Tx-Power:20 dBm
           Retry min limit:5   RTS thr:off
           Encryption key:F000-6B72-F000-5347-F000-078E-AD   Security 
mode:open
           Power Management:off
           Link Quality:100/100  Signal level:65/100  Noise level:0/100
           Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
           Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

So I think it's seeing something.

'ifconfig eth1' gives me:

eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:80:C8:CF:63:56
           inet6 addr: fe80::280:c8ff:fecf:6356/64 Scope:Link
           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
           RX packets:26 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
           TX packets:3 errors:2 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
           collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
           RX bytes:5609 (5.4 Kb)  TX bytes:210 (210.0 b)
           Interrupt:11 Base address:0x4000

Taking eth0 down and bringing eth1 up results in no network.

I know zilch about networking, I'm afraid. Help would be gratefully 
received.

thanks,
  Stewart
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