Rt2500usb will not connect to network, Gutsy (and Hardy)

In Synaptic shown installed are;- rt2500 and rt2500-source  (they do not mention usb?)
 
hardware info = info.linux.driver   rt2500usb
:~$ uname -a
Linux athlon 2.6.22-14-generic #1 SMP Tue Feb 12 07:42:25 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux

The device starts up, and in 'Roaming'it collects all the wireless networks, chooses mine, the eventually asks for encryption, WEP-Ascii is entered, but it does not connect to network.  The USB adapter flashes a short time, but no connection is made.  After a while the encryption code is requested again with the same result.  The device does work on the other OS-xp drivers, it is obviously partially working here but does not connect.

If I try manual config, set the network, encryption and DHCP I get the same result.

Are there any alternatives I could try?  have I got the correct drivers installed in Synaptec?
Any help would be appreciated.


My attempts so far;

sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart

~$ lsusb

lswlan   Bus 004 Device 003: ID 050d:7050 Belkin Components F5D7050 ver 1000 WiFi


:~$ ifconfig

 * Reconfiguring network interfaces...                                          
eth1: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
Error for wireless request "Set Encode" (8B2A) :
    SET failed on device eth1 ; No such device.
Error for wireless request "Set ESSID" (8B1A) :
    SET failed on device eth1 ; No such device.
There is already a pid file /var/run/dhclient.eth1.pid with pid 134519120

wmaster0: unknown hardware address type 801
SIOCSIFADDR: No such device
eth1: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
eth1: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
wmaster0: unknown hardware address type 801
Bind socket to interface: No such device
Failed to bring up eth1.


wmaster0: unknown hardware address type 801
Listening on LPF/wlan0/00:11:50:4c:35:05
Sending on   LPF/wlan0/00:11:50:4c:35:05
Sending on   Socket/fallback
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 10
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 9
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 4
No DHCPOFFERS received.
No working leases in persistent database - sleeping.
                                                                       


ifconfig

wlan0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:11:50:4C:35:05  
          UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:6 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:130 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:252 (252.0 b)  TX bytes:26853 (26.2 KB)

wlan0:ava Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:11:50:4C:35:05  
          inet addr:169.254.2.131  Bcast:169.254.255.255  Mask:255.255.0.0
          UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1

wmaster0  Link encap:UNSPEC  HWaddr 00-11-50-4C-35-05-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00  
          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)