Compaq HNW-200 on FC1/RH9 will not work!!

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Hello,
I've been trying to get my atmel-based Compaq HNW-200
USB Wireless Adapter to work on RH9 and now FC1
forever!

It seems the driver was installed properly (I
installed the 2002-12-09 snapshot of atmelwlandriver)
as this is what dmesg gives:

prism2_init: prism2_usb.o: 0.2.1-pre14 Loaded
prism2_init: dev_info is: prism2_usb
usb.c: registered new driver prism2_usb
at76c503.c: getting firmware failed with -32, or
version is 0
at76c503.c: this probably means that the ext. fw was
not loaded correctly
unregister_netdevice: device eth%d/dab44000 never was
registered
at76c503.c: at76c503_new_device returned NULL
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 [PCSPP,TRISTATE,EPP]
lp0: using parport0 (polling).
lp0: console ready
usb.c: USB disconnect on device 02:01.1-1 address 2
hub.c: new USB device 02:01.1-1, assigned address 3
usbdfu.c: Downloading firmware for USB device 3...
at76c503.c: $Id: at76c503.c,v 1.35 2003/07/30 06:31:51
jal2 Exp $ compiled Oct 29 2003 15:50:26
at76c503.c: firmware version 0.90.0 #44 (fcs_len 4)
at76c503.c: device's MAC 00:05:5d:d5:9e:4c, regulatory
domain <unknown> (id 0)
divert: allocating divert_blk for wlan0
at76c503.c: registered wlan0
at76c503.c: using BSSID 02:00:8a:40:27:00
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 02:0a.0
hdc: attached ide-cdrom driver.
hdc: ATAPI 48X DVD-ROM drive, 512kB Cache, UDMA(33)
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12
cdrom: This disc doesn't have any tracks I recognize!
NTFS driver v1.1.22 [Flags: R/O MODULE]
NTFS: Warning! NTFS volume version is Win2k+: Mounting
read-only
cdrom: This disc doesn't have any tracks I recognize!
cdrom: This disc doesn't have any tracks I recognize!
at76c503.c: using BSSID 02:00:d5:c4:c5:49
at76c503.c: using BSSID 02:00:5e:28:7a:4a

I think one of the problems now is that I installed
prism2 (installed kernel-wlan-ng-0.2.1-pre14.i686.rpm,
kernel-wlan-ng-modules-fc1.1.2115-0.2.1-pre14.i686.rpm,
kernel-wlan-ng-usb-0.2.1-pre14.i686.rpm)? But my card
wasn't working before anyways.

I run iwconfig with the proper parameters, at least I
should hope.   One funny thing is that when I pass the
key, which is a 26-digit ASCII string, with the s:
prefix the actual key prints out differently when I
re-run iwconfig so I've just been passing in the ASCII
string without the s: prefix.

I'm also confused on what exactly I do after this? I'm
supposed to run ifconfig and assign an IP? Buy what
about DHCP?


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