rt3572: Can't get WPA_supplicant to work

[ohmysql]

Remove both lines containing "wlan0", remove your wireless profile and reboot. Then set-up a new wireless profile. Check:

cat /etc/network/interfaces
route -n
cat /etc/resolv.conf
lsmod
iwconfig
dmesg | grep rt2
rfkill list
sudo iwlist scan

If you are using Wicd, try with those 2 lines.

How do I delete my wireless profile?

[praseodym]

In NetworkManager: Right-click->Edit, choose your profile and "remove". In Wicd (I dont use it) its similar after starting the applet.

[ohmysql]

I was going to try your changes, but I ended up trying the rt2800usb driver first and it is working! I've learned from this saga not to celebrate too early, but I am once again writing from my Cisco AM10 Valet Connector.

For some reason it uses wlan0 rather than ra0, but I am prepared to live with that. So I haven't configured interfaces at all. I'm going to mark this as solved. Solution: use rt2800usb. We'll see if the good news keeps rolling.

Thank you SO MUCH for all your help. I've learned a ton about how linux wireless networking works from all this. I was rereading old posts from when I started and just amazed that I didn't know any of the things I know now back then. Thank you.

And I think the supplicant was working at the end. But I think overall it wasn't associating with the driver very well, perhaps because I wasn't using the right driver. Anyway, this hopefully seems to be solved.

Like, oh my SQL!!