Hostap interface problems on Debian Sarge

Hello

Just replaced my firewall router machine running Slackware 10.0 with Debian Sarge and am trying to get things back to work.

This machine has two network interfaces - wired (eth0) and wireless (where the trouble is). The wired interface connects to the internet via a cable modem. The wireless interface was ( and will be with your help) used as an access point (Netgear MA311) with hostap drivers.

I have hotplug and that loads orinocopci driver as soon as it detects the wireless device as eth1. Now, following some advice I located through google, I added orinocopci, orinococs, orinocoplx and hermes toetc-hotplug-blacklist. Inetc-modutils-aliases, I added an entry for wlan0 against hostappci. Toetc-network-interfaces, I added :

iface wlan0 inet static address 192.168.1.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 pre-up modprobe hostappci post-upsbin-iwconfig wlan0 essid homenetwork mode Master

Now, when I boot up, orinocopci, orinoco and hermes get loaded for no apparent reason (they are in the blacklist, right ?) and when I try to bring up wlan0 with ifup, I get :

SIOCSIFADDR: No such device wlan0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device SIOCSIFNETMASK: No such device wlan0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device Failed to bring up wlan0.

sbin-iwconfig reveals that eth1 is already defined as the wireless device. How do I ensure that orinoco* never get loaded and eth1 never created. I need wlan0 to come up instead.

GC