[Liverpool] WPA_Supplicant doesn't. (Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying And Go Back To CAT5)

[Ben Arnold]

A pint* is the prize for anyone that can get wpa_supplicant to connect to a 
protected wireless network.

Wicd can connect to unprotected ones -- proving the wireless, drivers etc. are 
fine -- but no matter the level of protection set, wpa_supplicant times-out 
when trying to negotiate the authentication. (With unprotected networks, the 
networking system does not call wpa_supplicant, thus it works.) This is on 
SliTaz Linux, a Slack-like basic distro, but I must confess I haven't tied any 
others because of the no-CDROM situation. If you have Live distros on USB you 
wish to convert me to then I'm more than willing to give them a try: if 
they're quick to run as I us SliTaz for the ~15sec full-desktop boot.

I'll bring the 'book along to each LUG, if not just to feel good about myself 
on the train.

Cheers,
Ben

* In the case of Wrexham, your prize is whatever I can get from the bakery 
with the change from the train fare, as we don't meet in a pub!
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