Quote Originally Posted by Capricorny
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?
I have basically the same issue with 6.2.1 cd/dvd with the exception of my ESSID scrambled? when I issue the ifconfig -a command.

wlan0 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:"p\xE9>\xA1A\xE1\xFCg>\x01~\x97\xEA\xDCk\x96 \x8F8\*\xEC\xB0;\xFB2\xAF<T\xEC\x18\xDB\"

wlan0 authenticates, associates, then deauthenticates, reported via dmesg.

I too have WPA2(AES enc) on a Netgear router WPN824v3; wifi Zyxel G302v3. Both capable of WPA/WPA2.
My nic cards work with Knoppix.

With Wicd, it has told me I have a bad password .. lol. Tell that to the two windows boxes that connect and have wifi internet access. Seems it wants to connect through IPv6.

Still diggin' though.