Hello,
I have been receiving a lot of trouble with my Netgear WG311 Wireless Card. I recently have configured it using the madwifi drivers and have successfully connected to the internet. When I reboot my computer, I get an error message as follows:
"Device ath0 had a different MAC address than expected: Failed"

Then soon after that error, after the login screen I get:

"Could not look up Internet address for localuser. This will prevent GNOME from operating correctly. It may be possible to correct the problem by adding localuser to the file /etc/hosts."

After I finally log on, I click on my browser to check if it will work anyhow. As I figured, no success. I go into Applications/System Tools/Network Device Control from the drop down menu. I click on activate and the error about the Different Mac Address appears. I click on configure and activate in the configuration menu and it determines the IP address. I use my browser and i can now connect to the Internet.

How would I get this to recognize the Mac Address so it will connect on boot?

The router I'm using is a motorola 1000.

Here is some information I have gathered that could be of some use.

sbin/ifconfig----------------------------------------------------------------------------
ath0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:09:5B:94:82:CC
inet addr:192.168.0.10 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::209:5bff:fe94:82cc/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:189 errors:665 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:665
TX packets:205 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:199
RX bytes:171400 (167.3 KiB) TX bytes:32775 (32.0 KiB)
Interrupt:217 Memory:62c80000-62c90000

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:1355 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1355 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:1389898 (1.3 MiB) TX bytes:1389898 (1.3 MiB)
end-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

cat < /etc/sysconfig/.....-ath0-------------------------------------------------------------
# Please read /usr/share/doc/initscripts-*/sysconfig.txt
# for the documentation of these parameters.
IPV6INIT=yes
ONBOOT=yes
USERCTL=yes
PEERDNS=yes
GATEWAY=
TYPE=Wireless
DEVICE=ath0
HWADDR=00:09:5b:94:82:cc
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
DHCP_HOSTNAME=charlie
IPADDR=192.168.0.2
DOMAIN=192.168.0.1
ESSID=Motorola
CHANNEL=1
MODE=Managed
RATE=Auto
end------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

/etc/resolv.conf----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
; generated by /sbin/dhclient-script
nameserver 192.168.0.1
end-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Any help would be greatly appriciated, and if info could be given on where to find this solution I would be very happy!

Thanks,

charlie

"Could not look up Internet address for localuser. This will prevent GNOME from operating correctly. It may be possible to correct the problem by adding localuser to the file /etc/hosts."

to solve this just do as it says, add the line
127.0.0.1 localuser
to your /etc/hosts file. As for the different mac address error, I think you can solve this by adding alias information to the
following lines to your /etc/modprobe.conf file
alias ath0 ath_pci
however for a full round-up make sure you read
http://madwifiwiki.thewebhost.de/wiki/1
Cheers
Chris