Wireless Connection Fails to Initialize

[James J Catchpole <james_j_catchpole yahoo com>]

I joined the List forum but am unsure if this is the correct way to send in a problem. Anyway here it is.

Wireless Connection Fails to Initialize; adapter is accessible (Green Light is On) but NetworkManager is unable to access; see information below.
Of course the problem may be in the Kernel but its difficult to know.

Fedora 14
kernel-PAE-2.6.35.10-74.fc14.i686
wlan0 (Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG [Golan] Network Conection)
Bind to MAC address  00:13:02:08:e6:8a

********************* Ifconfig Status for wlan0 ******* 

wlan0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:13:02:08:E6:8A  
          UP 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)

********* Network Error Messages when trying to activate wlan0 *****

SIOCADDRT: File exists
SIOCADDRT: File exists
SIOCADDRT: File exists
SIOCADDRT: File exists
Error for wireless request "Set Mode" (8B06) :
    SET failed on device wlan0 ; Invalid argument.
Error for wireless request "Set Encode" (8B2A) :
    SET failed on device wlan0 ; Invalid argument.

Determining IP information for wlan0... failed; no link present.  Check cable?