[Madwifi-devel] Unable to connect...

[D A. <da...@ho...>]

I seem to be missing something very basic here and I can't figure out what 
it is.
I am going to explain this so there is nothing assumed. So sorry for the 
dumbed down approach.
I have removed the Madwifi driver (make uninstall) and did a make clean then 
powered down.
I inserted a Netgear WPN311 (on the compatibility list) and powered up 
Redhat Enterprise edition 4.
It asked me to configure (at boot) and I said yes and gave it the address 
192.168.1.200 and netmask 255.255.255.0 all the rest was blank. Once booted 
I logged in as root. Under System settings I deactivated my eth0 and 
activated wifi0. All the rest of the settings indicate the static ip 
mentioned above. I then did a make, then a make install. All went well. Then 
I did the following commands on a console:
modprobe ath_pci
wlanconfig ath0 create wlandev wifi0 wlanmode adhoc
iwconfig ath0 essid "dave"
ifconfig ath0 up

After a short while my Windows machine shows it aquiring network address and 
then shows it connected.
I can do a wlanconfig ath0 list and see the MAC addresses of the other 
devices out there including my Windows machine.
When I do a ping to the Windows machine (also in adhoc mode with ssid of 
"dave") I get "host unreachable" and when I try to ping my device from my 
Windows box I get "host unreachable".
I know this should be brain-dead easy for someone out there. What am I 
missing?

desperate!
dave