Trouble installing Linksys WMP54G wireless PCI adapter Fedora 8

[Frank8]

I've never installed a wireless adapter on Linux.  

The Linksys Wireless-G adapter talks to my router with Windows XP, so the hardware works and is plugged in.

lspci -v tells me I have a 

00:08.0 Network controller: RaLink RT2561/RT61 802.11g PCI
        Subsystem: Linksys WMP54G ver 4.1
        Flags: bus master, slow devsel, latency 32, IRQ 20
        Memory at ea000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=32K]
        Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2

iwconfig tells me

00:08.0 Network controller: RaLink RT2561/RT61 802.11g PCI
        Subsystem: Linksys WMP54G ver 4.1
        Flags: bus master, slow devsel, latency 32, IRQ 20
        Memory at ea000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=32K]
        Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2

[root at localhost [1] feri]# lsmod | grep rt
rt61pci                24513  0 
rt2x00pci              11201  1 rt61pci
rt2x00lib              21057  2 rt61pci,rt2x00pci
Fedora 8 installed a recent version:        2.0.12

I've tried turning on NetworkManager, but that didn't work. I also tried ifup wlan0.  I currently have the router set with no security. Ultimately, I would like to run WEP with a 64 bit hex key.

If I ifup
ifup wlan0
Error for wireless request "Set Mode" (8B06) :
    SET failed on device wlan0 ; Invalid argument.
SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory

Determining IP information for wlan0...SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory
SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory

At the end of my dmesg, I have many lines that look like this: 

phy0 -> rt2x00lib_request_firmware: Error - Failed to request Firmware.

In /var/log/messages 

Dec 30 23:37:06 localhost dhclient: wmaster0: unknown hardware address type 801
Dec 30 23:37:06 localhost dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 6
Dec 30 23:37:06 localhost dhclient: send_packet: Network is down

A little guidance would be really appreciated. 

Frank


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