Did a clean install, Wireless not working

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My roomate needs to use this computer too, So I had to move it to the living room. I had an old Dlink PCI wireless card. I put it and did a clean install of dapper. The ethernet works fine and on the network settings I see wifi0 and wlan0 and status as disabled wireless network device.

uname -a: 
Linux ROWDY 2.6.15-25-386 #1 PREEMPT Wed Jun 14 11:25:49 UTC 2006 i686 GNU/Linux

ifconfig wlan0 yields wlano: error fetching interface information: Device not found

and

ifconfig wifi0 yields 
wifi0   Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
     BROADCAST 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:217

the

lspci gives my device as 0000:01:00.0 Network controller: Intersil Corporation Prism 2.5 Wavelan chipset (rev 01).

lshw -C network prints
description: Wireless interface
    product: Prism 2.5 Wavelan chipset
    vendor: Intersil Corporation
    physical id: 0
    bus info: pci@01:00.0
    logical name: wifi0
    version: 01
    width: 32 bits
    clock: 33MHz
    capabilities: cap_list logical wireless ethernet physical
    configuration: broadcast=yes driver=hostap_pci multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11-DS
    resources: iomemory:e0000000-e0000fff irq:217

I see the hostap module installed the related modules being

hostap_pci       56848 0
hostap        119428 1 hostap_pci
ieee80211_crypt     6272 1 hostap

dmesg keeps printing a lot of these messages

wlan0: cannot get RID fd48 (len=2) - no PRI f/w

and

wifi0: cannot get RID fd48 (len=2) - no PRI f/w

Googling hostap says that no firmware is needed.

Why do I see wifi0 and wlan0 and how do I get this to work.

Thanks,
Arun