wireless with wpa in Berry???

[gnomic]

Have been trying to get wireless running in Berry 0.94 using the provided wlassistant. All the requisite factors seem OK, the firmware is present in /lib/firmware, module for Intel wifi on ThinkPad R51 loaded, wlassistant asks for wpa passphrase. Yet when wlassistant sets off to connect it just spins its wheels for a long period before announcing connection has failed. The led that announces association with an access point never starts flashing. The setup works fine with various other distros using wicd in the gui or via the command line with wpa_supplicant. It seems that the laptop is not hooking up with the access point, tho' wlassistant sees the ap on scanning, and iwlist agrees. I have looked at the files wlassistant is making as it tries to connect - my best guess is that it is trying to send the passphrase in a way that might work with WEP but not WPA. Anyone had any success here? I haven't looked at the Fedora 10 KDE version to see how they handle it. I was able to get a wireless connection using 0.85 and same software/hardware so things seem to have gone backwards in this respect. I tried making a usable config with wpa_supplicant but no joy, and wlassistant does its own thing, doesn't use the conventional /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf.