Bcmwl5a wireless g almost working

Question

I have read through all the threads here that I can find on getting this to work and I am really close, but it's not quite there so I am posting my info here in hopes that it is something simple and someone has the answer.
Details:
Ibm thinkpad
Motorola wn825g wireless card
Using ndiswrapper with bcmwl5a.inf
Custom 2.6.7 kernel
Using ndiswrapper version 1 (had tried a newer version prior)
ifconfig shows wlan0 with an assigned IP
ndiswrapper -l shows the driver is loaded and the hardware is present
lspci shows Broadcom Corporation: Unknown Device 4320 (rev 03)
iwconfig shows the following:
wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:off/any
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.462 GHz Access Point: 00:00:00:00:00:00
Bit Rate:54 Mb/s Tx-Power:25 dBm
RTS thr:2347 B Fragment thr:2346 B
Encryption key:xxx-xxx-xx Security mode:restricted
Power Management:off
Link Quality:100/100 Signal level:-10 dBm Noise level:-256 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
so, as others have seen as well - it doesn't find the access point. I tried scanning for it, but it doesn't find it.
It can't ping anything except its own IP. The link light on the card lights up very bright and the power light is on but isnt as bright (might be normal?).
I'm using a wireless router with routing and dns disabled as an access point. It worked fine before on my previous wireless b card and there is another laptop here that I just set up for someone else and it works fine using totally different hardware and software.
Any help would be appreciated. It seems very close, but I feel like i've tried just about everything.

Answer 1

yeah, I made sure it was case sensitive. Check out my last post again - I added some things to it at the same time you responded I think.
I did some other things including iwlist scanning and such and figured out some more info. I got all my hardware addresses for the router, b and c cards. I re-ran my network with the b card inserted just so I could get more info:
iwconfig
eth0      no wireless extensions.
lo        no wireless extensions.
wlan0     IEEE 802.11g  ESSID:off/any 
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.437 GHz  Access Point: 00:00:00:00:00:00   
          Bit Rate:54 Mb/s   Tx-Power:25 dBm   
          RTS thr:2347 B   Fragment thr:2346 B   
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality:100/100  Signal level:-10 dBm  Noise level:-256 dBm
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:994   Missed beacon:0
eth1      IEEE 802.11-DS  ESSID:"default"  Nickname:"Prism  I"
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.437 GHz  Access Point: 00:0D:XX:XX:XX:XX   
          Bit Rate:2 Mb/s   Tx-Power=15 dBm   Sensitivity:1/3 
          Retry min limit:8   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality=92/92  Signal level=5/153  Noise level=116/153
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:153  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0
notice the G card has no connection to the access point at all.
and here is my ifconfig:
ifconfig   
eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:30:XX:XX:XX:XX 
          inet addr:192.168.1.108  Bcast:192.168.1.255  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:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
          Interrupt:3 Base address:0x100
lo        Link encap:Local Loopback 
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:201 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:201 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:12112 (11.8 Kb)  TX bytes:12112 (11.8 Kb)
wlan0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:0C:XX:XX:XX:XX 
          inet addr:192.168.1.108  Bcast:192.168.1.255  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:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
          Memory:20400000-20401fff
So this tells me a few things:
1 - my b card (00:30) can find my access point (00:0D) and has an essid set as default which is correct
2 - my access point shows when I scan for it with iwlist
3 - my g card (wlan0 aka 00:0C)  cant get its essid set and cant find the access point.
There is one other possibility that could be affecting this. I may have mapped the b card mac address when I configured the router before disabling routing. This may be preventing this other card from working or causing a conflict. I could try resetting the router and doing it over again although it would be a bit of a pain.
Let me know if any of this info points to something i'm missing, thanks.