WiFi Setup on HP nx6325 Laptop

I'm in the process of trying to setup WiFi support on 6.10.

I've replaced the stock broadcom driver with the generic ndiswrapper driver and remove the old broadcom driver. After a few compiles, rmmod, modprobes, that's done.

The relevant output from dmesg (to me) looks like everything is looking good:

[17179591.672000] ndiswrapper version 1.25 loaded (preempt=no,smp=yes)
[17179591.760000] ndiswrapper: driver bcmwl5 (Broadcom,03/23/2006, 4.40.19.0) loaded
[17179591.760000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:30:00.0[A] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 50
[17179591.760000] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:30:00.0 to 64
[17179591.768000] ndiswrapper: using IRQ 50
[17179592.456000] wlan0: vendor: ''
[17179592.456000] wlan0: ethernet device 00:14:a5:e1:aa:80 using NDIS driver bcmwl5, 14E4:4312.5.conf
[17179592.456000] wlan0: encryption modes supported: WEP; TKIP with WPA, WPA2, WPA2PSK; AES/CCMP with WPA, WPA2, WPA2PSK
[17179592.456000] usbcore: registered new driver ndiswrapper
[17179592.456000] ndiswrapper: changing interface name from 'wlan0' to 'eth1'

When the laptop boots up, the wireless light is on so I figure that is a good sign. So next step is I tried to set the ssid and my wep password through System -> Administration -> Networking. eth1 is there and I dutifully set both the essid and the wep password. However, if I open up a terminal and issue iwconfig, those values do not appear to be set. Output:

lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

eth1 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:off/any
          Mode:Managed Frequency:2.462 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
          Bit Rate:54 Mb/s Tx-Power:32 dBm
          RTS thr:2347 B Fragment thr:2346 B
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
          Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

sit0 no wireless extensions.

So I tried iwlist eth1 scan and it does appear to be able to see my WAP. Output:

mstich@devx2:~$ iwlist eth1 scan
eth1 Scan completed :
          Cell 01 - Address: 00:C0:B7:28:77:96
                    ESSID:"-------------"
                    Protocol:IEEE 802.11g
                    Mode:Managed
                    Frequency:2.452 GHz (Channel 9)
                    Quality:0/100 Signal level:-49 dBm Noise level:-256 dBm
                    Encryption key:on
                    Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s
                              9 Mb/s; 12 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s; 24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s
                              48 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s
                    Extra:bcn_int=100

I've tried to use iwconfig to set the essid, key, and about every other thing that is configurable on a wifi connection but no luck. I don't get an error from iwconfig but it's as if the command is a no-op.

Currently, I have eth1 setup to dhcp, but I've tried setting it up for a static ip as well. Any pointers as to what I have to configure would be greatly appreciated.

Regards