inspiron 1525 - ubuntu 8.04 and WPA wireless problems

Hello

I've been struggling with this for few days and have searched many posts and forums and hope posting here will help.

I've a dell inspiron 1525 with ubuntu 8.04/ vista dual boot and a WIRELESS DELL 1395 (802.B/G) MINI CARD F trying to connect to a netgear dg834g router using WPA-PSk. I've got WEP working on both OSs and WPA on vista but not on ubuntu.

I installed wireless drivers using these instructions...

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=405990&highlight=ndiswrapper

here is my outputs before restarting networking - hope the formatting works.

nome@nome-laptop:~$ sudo iwconfig

lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

eth1 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:"" Nickname:""
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
Bit Rate:54 Mb/s Tx-Power:32 dBm
Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality=5/5 Signal level=0 dBm Noise level=0 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

nome@nome-laptop:~$ sudo iwlist scan

lo Interface doesn't support scanning.

eth0 Interface doesn't support scanning.

eth1 Scan completed :

Cell 04 - Address: 00:0F:B5:79:7F:74
ESSID:"n99"
Mode:Managed
Frequency:2.462 GHz (Channel 11)
Quality:5/5 Signal level:-41 dBm Noise level:-27 dBm
IE: WPA Version 1
Group Cipher : TKIP
Pairwise Ciphers (1) : TKIP
Authentication Suites (1) : PSK
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

nome@nome-laptop:~$ sudo cat /etc/network/interfaces

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

auto eth1
iface eth1 inet dhcp
wpa-ssid n99
wpa-driver wext
wpa-proto WPA
wpa-ap-scan 1
wpa-pairwise TKIP
wpa-group TKIP
wpa-key-mgmt WPA-PSK
wpa-psk

then I restart

nome@nome-laptop:~$ sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart

* Reconfiguring network interfaces... There is already a pid file /var/run/dhclient.eth1.pid with pid 5970
killed old client process, removed PID file
Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.0.6
Copyright 2004-2007 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/sw/dhcp/

Listening on LPF/eth1/00:1f:e1:c6:07:7a
Sending on LPF/eth1/00:1f:e1:c6:07:7a
Sending on Socket/fallback
DHCPRELEASE on eth1 to 192.168.0.1 port 67
There is already a pid file /var/run/dhclient.eth1.pid with pid 134519072
Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.0.6
Copyright 2004-2007 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/sw/dhcp/

Listening on LPF/eth1/00:1f:e1:c6:07:7a
Sending on LPF/eth1/00:1f:e1:c6:07:7a
Sending on Socket/fallback
DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 3
DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 5
DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 7
DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 12
DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 4
No DHCPOFFERS received.
No working leases in persistent database - sleeping.

I run iwconfig during the restart I can see something being picked up and then dropped for some reason and am not sure why....


nome@nome-laptop:~$ sudo iwconfig

lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

eth1 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:"n99" Nickname:""
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.462 GHz Access Point: 00:0F:B5:79:7F:74
Bit Rate=54 Mb/s Tx-Power:32 dBm
Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality=5/5 Signal level=-40 dBm Noise level=-89 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

nome@nome-laptop:~$ sudo iwconfig

lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

eth1 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:"" Nickname:""
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.462 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
Bit Rate:54 Mb/s Tx-Power:32 dBm
Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality=5/5 Signal level=-40 dBm Noise level=-89 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

The above behavior is exhibited if I do this manually using the interfaces file or through the network manager applet.

Hope a ubuntu superhero can help!

cheeeeeeeeeeeeeers

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