[Ndiswrapper-general] card only works in X

[Gav <ga...@in...>]

hi,

i'm writing here as a last resort to geting my card working properly, having 
tried the gentoo forums, google, 5 different drivers, 3 version of 
ndiswrapper and the mailing list archives.

the card in question is a belkin F5D7000 (pci 802.11g) with (apparently) the 
broadcom 94306 chipset.

for what it's worth, the motherboard is a custom sff shuttle for the SN41G2. 
this has the nforce2 chipset (with onboard lan).

i'm using the gentoo version of kernel 2.6.7 and xfree 4.3.0.

with the drivers that seem to work (driver3 link on the supported chipsets 
page), the card is detected ok, and iwlist works fine, detecting the ap ok. 
iwconfig sets all the config ok, but cannot change the essid (so i guess it 
cant register with the ap).

however i can get it working, once i've logged on into X. calling iwconfig 
*from* an xterm results in no problems at all. if i then switch back to 
console, leaving X running it still doesn't work. so to recap, association 
with an ap only works if iwconfig is called from within X.

i have tried this with every driver i can get hold of. most dont seem to work 
at all (despite a "hardware present" message from ndiswrapper -l). i've also 
tried it with ndiswrapper 0.8, 0.9 and cvs HEAD.

thanks for any help you can offer me.

gav