Wirless Problems

I have a Compaq Evo n800c laptop with a w200 multiport wireless network card that utilizes usb.  The actual power is wired to the key combination FN(function)+F2.  Hotplug seems to load the prism2_usb module as well as p80211.
Ive searched all over for imformation on this type of wireless device and I find conflicting information no matter where I go.  On the gentoo forums, they said the module needed for this device is orinoco_usb.
One thing I do not understand is when I run iwconfig( i have wireless-tools and wlan-ng26 installed) i get a wlan0 interface, althought it says "no wireless  devices available" I still shows up.  It also shows up via ifconfig -a.  If I rmmod the module prism2_usb, and do the same, the wlan0 interface does not show up in either iwconfig or ifconfig -a.  If i modprobe orinoco it still does not show up.  At this point I do not know which module to use since wlan0 shows up with prism2_usb loaded, yet on the gentoo forums, in a thread specific to my exact laptop they agreed the module needed was orinoco.
There also seems to be a problem bringing up the interface and or recognizing the interface. I downloaded the cvs version of orinoco drivers so that might be a problem, but I doubt it.
/var/log/messages after I unplug/plug back in the card
Oct 6 22:24:36 localhost net.agent[4295]: how do I bring interfaces up on this distro?
Oct 6 22:24:36 localhost net.agent[4295]: add event not handled
Something also may be wrong with the firmware because of this dmesg error:
usb 2-3: USB disconnect, address 9
usb 2-3: new full speed USB device using address 10
usb 2-3: config 1 has an invalid interface number: 1 but max is 0
usb 2-3: config 1 has no interface number 0
prism_usb_hard_reset - dummy
prism_usb_init - dummy
prism_usb_init - dummy
prism_usb_allocate - dummy
prism_usb_read_ltv - dummy
eth1: Cannot read hardware identity: error -95
eth1: Incompatible firmware, aborting
prism_usb: Cannot register network device
prism_usb: probe of 2-3:1.1 failed with error -95
Any help is greatly appreciated.
In addition this is the cat /proc/bus/usb/devices output for the device:
T: Bus=02 Lev=01 Prnt=01 Port=02 Cnt=02 Dev#= 11 Spd=12 MxCh= 0
D: Ver= 1.10 Cls=00(>ifc ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS= 8 #Cfgs= 1
P: Vendor=049f ProdID=0033 Rev= 1.32
S: SerialNumber=00217A001E4
C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=c0 MxPwr=500mA
I: If#= 1 Alt= 0 #EPs= 3 Cls=ff(vend.) Sub=ff Prot=ff Driver=prism2_usb
E: Ad=81(I) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS= 64 Ivl=0ms
E: Ad=02(O) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS= 64 Ivl=0ms
E: Ad=83(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS= 8 Ivl=1ms
Edit
After googling the device info, it reports as an orinoco device, seems udev got the driver wrong, or something else happened.
I think I need to have udev/hotplug load a different module, everytime I turn on the device the prism modules are loaded. Can anyone tell me how I can have a different module loaded when this device turns on.

ok, let's see if we can bring together all informations in order to get work the usb dwl-122 (and should be the same procedure for all devices with prism2 chips):
be sure you have installed the wlan-ng package
# pacman -Q wlan-ng26
save a script called "wlan" in /etc/hotplug/usb and make it executable with chmod 755.
#!/bin/sh
###Load module (prism2_pci for pci devices)
modprobe prism2_usb prism2_doreset=1
###Reset Card
wlanctl-ng wlan0 lnxreq_ifstate ifstate=enable
###SETUP FOR WEP AND THEN CONNECT
wlanctl-ng wlan0 dot11req_mibset mibattribute=dot11WEPDefaultKeyID=0
wlanctl-ng wlan0 dot11req_mibset mibattribute=dot11ExcludeUnencrypted=true
wlanctl-ng wlan0 dot11req_mibset mibattribute=dot11PrivacyInvoked=true
wlanctl-ng wlan0 dot11req_mibset mibattribute=dot11WEPDefaultKey0=00:01:02:03:04:05:06:07:08:09:0a:0b:0c
wlanctl-ng wlan0 lnxreq_autojoin ssid=<your_ssid> authtype=opensystem
###Static IP
#ifconfig wlan0 <ip_adresse>
#route add default gw <ip_gateway>
###DHCP
dhcpcd wlan0
exit 0
don't forget to set your WEP and SSID
then make a usermap called "wlan.usermap" and also save it  in /etc/hotplug/usb
wlan is the script above which will be executed when the usb stick has been detected,
0x0003 seems to be the same id for all usb devices,
0x2001 is the vendor id,
0x3700 is the product id (both ids can be found with hwd -e).
#dwl-122
wlan 0x0003 0x2001 0x3700 0x0000 0x0000 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00000000
so far, it works great for me but if you see something i could improve - please, let me know ...

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