PCI Netgear wireless card. MA311 H...E...L...P!!!!!!

I installed knoppix 2.3 06-06 version, it recognized my PCI MA311 wireless card, but it couldint set up network connection. I have 2 laptop with orinico PCMCIA wire less cards and they work fine. My access point is RG1000 (lucent piece of sh** ), its AP and a gateway.

I noitced a few strange things, the driver that knoppix loads are the orinoco and orinoco_pci drivers for my MA311 PCI card! I was under the impression that these cards are prism II cards, so I tried to manually load the prism2_pci driver, but it fails saying ":no device"

Strangely I was messing with it and somehow my card started to make connection with the internet, but this luck went away once I rebooted the machine. Now I am back to square one.

The situation is such:
1. all drivers orinoco_XXX are loaded and it is marked as used., and p80211 is also loaded.
2. no prism_XXX drivers are loaded (this is confusing to me )
3. I used wlcardconfig to configure the card, the only parameters I used were SSID=3ab190 and KEY = s:ab190 (these happen to work for my PCMCIA cards on my laptop)
4. ifconfig eth0 up brings up the wireless interface, RX:0 TX:18000, its transmitting packets but receivein none.
5. I edited /etc/network/interfaces and added the entry for the wireless interface.

Should I modify something on my lousy Lucent router so that my PCI card will work, or have I missed something with the Wireless setup on my desktop?? I have downloaded the JAVA client for my RG1000 but have no clue what set up on it.

Any help is DEEPLY appriciated

I was experiencing the same problems with the MA311, finally after basic troubleshooting it works great, if you are still having problems let me know.

After some sleepless nights it works kinda! basicly I have to do a iwlconfig each time I boot and then run pump, I havint figured a permanenet solution yet. If you have any suggestions pls let me know. It will be also be a good reference for somone who might run into the same problem.