Given the current difficulties with wifi, I have decided to shelf this project until a later time. It is not my preffered option but I am able to use windows in the meantime. Thanks John

OK. Maybe it's time to try an alternative approach! Support for these cards will be in Linux 2.6.17 in a much better format. Until now wireless in Linux has been a real mess. There seems to be an effort to really tidy it up now though.

What you can do is download the latest test version from http://kernel.org. It will be 2.6.17-rcx-gity where x and y are some number