wireless crash

i have fc2 on a dell laptop w/ a d-link wireless pccard. i installed the
pccard using ndiswrapper. card is detected; even the router (linksys).

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# /sbin/iwlist wlan0 scan
wlan0     Scan completed :
          Cell 01 - Address: 00:12:17:1E:3C:7A
                    ESSID:"linksys"
                    Protocol:IEEE 802.11b
                    Mode:Managed
                    Frequency:2.437GHz
                    Quality:0/100  Signal level:100/154  Noise level:0/154
                    Encryption key:off
                    Bit Rate:1Mb/s
                    Bit Rate:2Mb/s
                    Bit Rate:5.5Mb/s
                    Bit Rate:11Mb/s
                    Bit Rate:6Mb/s
                    Bit Rate:9Mb/s
                    Bit Rate:12Mb/s
                    Bit Rate:18Mb/s
                    Bit Rate:24Mb/s
                    Bit Rate:36Mb/s
                    Bit Rate:48Mb/s
                    Bit Rate:54Mb/s
                    Extra:bcn_int=100
                    Extra:atim=0
          Cell 02 - Address: 16:F1:07:BA:24:7E
                    ESSID:"hpsetup"
                    Protocol:IEEE 802.11b
                    Mode:Ad-Hoc
                    Frequency:2.457GHz
                    Quality:0/100  Signal level:59/154  Noise level:0/154
                    Encryption key:off
                    Bit Rate:1Mb/s
                    Bit Rate:2Mb/s
                    Bit Rate:5.5Mb/s
                    Bit Rate:11Mb/s
                    Extra:bcn_int=100
                    Extra:atim=0
          Cell 03 - Address: 00:7F:D8:7F:41:19
                    ESSID:""
                    Protocol:IEEE 802.11b
                    Mode:Ad-Hoc
                    Frequency:2.412GHz
                    Quality:0  Signal level:0  Noise level:0
                    Encryption key:off
                    Bit Rate:1Mb/s
                    Bit Rate:2Mb/s
                    Bit Rate:5.5Mb/s
                    Bit Rate:11Mb/s
                    Bit Rate:22Mb/s
                    Bit Rate:6Mb/s
                    Bit Rate:9Mb/s
                    Bit Rate:12Mb/s
                    Bit Rate:18Mb/s
                    Bit Rate:24Mb/s
                    Bit Rate:36Mb/s
                    Bit Rate:48Mb/s
                    Bit Rate:54Mb/s
                    Extra:bcn_int=200
                    Extra:atim=0
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cell 01 is my router! the others, i have no ideea what they are!

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# /sbin/iwconfig wlan0
wlan0     IEEE 802.11g  ESSID:""  Nickname:"localhost.localdomain"
          Mode:Ad-Hoc  Frequency:2.412GHz  Cell: 00:00:00:00:00:00
          Bit Rate=54Mb/s   Tx-Power:10 dBm   Sensitivity=0/3
          RTS thr=4096 B   Fragment thr=4096 B
          Encryption key:off
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality:100/100  Signal level:-100 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
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so i did:

ifconfig wlan0 up

but i cann't access the net!
if i do:

iwconfig wlan0 essid linksys

the system crashes so i have to hold the power down.
is this caused by the fact that fedora is on 4k stack? i will try to get a bigger stack kernel and see how it works.

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