Quote Originally Posted by thelawnet
I found I had to stop network-manager as it would overwrite my changes

But then although I was able to connect, it was only briefly, before iwconfig went back to Access Point "Not Associated"

So I give up.
Too bad. There may be some kind of auto-restarting going on there, I experienced something similar with 6.0.1.
Should be a way to turn that off, if that is the problem.

Tried with 6.X versions?