knetwork, WPA and Ralink RT2500

[marsmonkey]

Hi I have recently installed Dapper on my Acer Travelmate 290LCi which is fitted with a Ralink RT2500 wifi interface in the pcmia slot. This is because the built in intel wireless circuit has had a hardware failure. I can connect to WEP and unsecured wifi networks using the Wireless Assistant etc, but for WPA it seems I need knetwork.

Problem is that knetwork cannot see my Ralink, but does still see the Intel. If I attempt to use knetwork to connect to a WPA secured wifi.. it goes through its procedure and finishes with a (suprise suprise) configured but inactive intel pro wifi connection.

If I run nm-tool on a console I get the following...

strong@strong-laptop:~$ nm-tool

NetworkManager Tool

State: connected

- Device: eth0 ----------------------------------------------------------------
NM Path: /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/eth0
Type: Wired
Driver: 8139too
Active: yes
HW Address: 00:02:3F:BB:E3:30

Capabilities:
Supported: yes
Carrier Detect: yes
Speed: 100 Mb/s

Wired Settings
Hardware Link: yes

IP Settings:
IP Address: 192.168.0.102
Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0
Broadcast: 192.168.0.255
Gateway: 192.168.0.1
Primary DNS: 192.168.0.1
Secondary DNS: 0.0.0.0


- Device: eth1 ----------------------------------------------------------------
NM Path: /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/eth1
Type: 802.11 Wireless
Driver: ipw2100
Active: no
HW Address: 00:04:23:70:7BD

Capabilities:
Supported: yes

Wireless Settings
Scanning: yes
WEP Encryption: yes
WPA Encryption: yes
WPA2 Encryption: yes

Wireless Networks (* = Current Network)


Can anyone please help me?