iwconfig shows my essid and my access point, but no ip address. Any hints on where to go next?I have a similar problem with my Atheros card and support for WPA. Please see my post in this forum. From my experience wpa_supplicant does not show error message when run in the background. If you start it in the foreground and enable debugging, there should be plenty of messages;
Look for whether or not your network is found, or other error messages appear.I found a solution (I'm using WPA, not WPA2 like bingo, but it worked for me)
First, rmmod any modules with ath_ (I had ath_hal, ath_pci, and ath_rate_sample I think) to clear out the madwifi drivers. Then use ndiswrapper drivers on the drivers for your card, and wpa_supplicant will work fine with the ndiswrapper drivers. If you do not rmmod the ath drivers first, the ndiswrapper drivers will not take over the hardware, and the wpa_suppilcant will fail.
I think another donation will be in order soon. Great work DSL team.Hmm... since I switched to ndiswrapper with wpasupplicant, I get kernel panics (system freeze + keyboard lights flashing) when transfering files and/or running vnc sessions to DSL. When I switch back to madwifi and wep, no panics.
Panics were on some VNC seesions (DSL is the server, using the mydsl package), and every time I tried copying large (~300M) files via sftp or smb to DSL. It would panic early in the transfer (<100M).