problem with SMC wireless lan: no device file ?

[atrombla@home.com]

Hi,
I'm halfway through installing debian (potato) on a IBM Thinkpad 390.
All has gone well to this point but now I need the network to get
packages, and all I have is a SMC2632W wireless lan card.  

The potato PCMCIA setup recognized the card and loaded the wvlan_cs
driver.  I downloaded a copy of the wireless-tools to configure the card,
and that seems to work too.  IE, after boot (or /etc/init.d/pcmcia
restart) ifconfig shows the card configured, as does iwconfig.
The default route has been installed properly too.  

But pings to other machines just time out (no errors).  The only other
symptoms of failure are an error message from the wvlan_cs driver (which
does not seem fatal) and the fact that no device file (/dev/eth0)
is created.

Here is the dmesg output:

    Linux PCMCIA Card Services 3.1.22
      kernel build: 2.2.19pre17 unknown
      options:  [pci] [cardbus] [apm]
    PCI routing table version 1.0 at 0xfdf80
      00:03.0 -> irq 11
      00:03.1 -> irq 11
    Intel PCIC probe: 
      TI 1250A rev 02 PCI-to-CardBus at slot 00:03, mem 0x8000000
	host opts [0]: [pci + serial irq] [pci irq 11] [lat 168/176] [bus 32/34]
	host opts [1]: [pci + serial irq] [pci irq 11] [lat 168/176] [bus 35/37]
	ISA irqs (scanned) = 3,7,9,10 PCI status changes
    cs: IO port probe 0x0c00-0x0cff: excluding 0xcf8-0xcff
    cs: IO port probe 0x0800-0x08ff: clean.
    cs: IO port probe 0x0100-0x04ff: excluding 0x100-0x107 0x120-0x127 0x220-0x22f 0x300-0x307 0x378-0x37f 0x388-0x38f 0x4d0-0x4d7
    cs: IO port probe 0x0a00-0x0aff: clean.
    cs: memory probe 0xa0000000-0xa0ffffff: clean.
    wvlan_cs: WaveLAN/IEEE PCMCIA driver v1.0.5
    wvlan_cs: (c) Andreas Neuhaus <andy@fasta.fh-dortmund.de>
    wvlan_cs: index 0x01: Vcc 5.0, irq 3, io 0x0180-0x01bf
    wvlan_cs: Registered netdevice eth0
    wvlan_cs: Firmware return ``first'' = 0x0006, please report...
    wvlan_cs: MAC address on eth0 is 00 e0 29 9e 53 51 
    wvlan_cs: Firmware return ``first'' = 0x0006, please report...
    wvlan_cs: MAC address on eth0 is 00 e0 29 9e 53 51 

And iwconfig:

eth0      IEEE 802.11-DS  ESSID:"trombla"  Nickname:"rover"
          Frequency:2.437GHz  Sensitivity:1/3  Mode:Managed  
          Access Point: 00:90:4B:08:30:28
          Bit Rate=11Mb/s   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off   
          Encryption key:ABCD-EABC-DE
          Power Management:off
          Link quality:13/92  Signal level:-89 dBm  Noise level:-102 dBm
          Rx invalid nwid:0  invalid crypt:0  invalid misc:1

(names changed to protect the paranoid).  All this seems correct (the AP 
MAC address is right, for instance.  And the led on the card is steady
amber, indicating a solid connection.

Here is ifconfig's output:

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:E0:29:9E:53:51  
          inet addr:192.168.123.3  Bcast:192.168.123.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:6 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 
          Interrupt:3 Base address:0x180 

Note that there are some TX packets (from my ping attempts), but nothing 
ever comes back.

I'm stuck!  Any ideas ?

Thanks very much for any help you can give,
Alan 
atrombla@home.com
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