I have some old information on this thread as to my continuing efforts. I think at this point, it may just be the case that I need to configure WPA supplicant, but isn't that supposed to configure itself? My card is listed on the WPA supplicant "supported" list.

(old thread: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...15#post8653815 )

Could this be a driver issue? Should I ditch this nonsense and have a go at using ndiswrapper?