Finishing a complete new install of 8-stable on a Thinkpad T42. This model came with the Intel PRO/wireless 2100.

Despite being 802.11b only, the 2100 with the latest firmware does
WPA2 on Windows XP.

So far, it has almost but not quite been able to connect using WPA on FreeBSD.

rc.conf:
wlans_ipw0="wlan0"
ifconfig_wlan0="WPA DHCP"

loader.conf:
legal.intel_ipw.license_ack=1
if_ipw_load="YES"

wpa_supplicant.conf (copied from another system which has Atheros wireless and works fine):
network={
  ssid="myssid"
  psk="notmyrealpsk"
}

ifconfig wlan0 scan sees all the nearby access points, including mine.
wpa_supplicant can't quite attach, but doesn't give up trying.

ifconfig wlan0
wlan0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
        ether 00:0c:f1:4e:b1:ac
        media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (autoselect)
        status: no carrier
        ssid myssid channel 11 (2462 Mhz 11b)
        country US authmode WPA2/802.11i privacy ON deftxkey UNDEF txpower 0
        bmiss 7 scanvalid 60 roaming MANUAL

/var/log/messages:
Jan  3 14:49:40 paddy wpa_supplicant[392]: CTRL-EVENT-SCAN-RESULTS
Jan  3 14:49:40 paddy wpa_supplicant[392]: Trying to associate with 
00:14:bf:cd:a2:0b (SSID='myssid' freq=2412 MHz)
Jan  3 14:49:50 paddy wpa_supplicant[392]: Authentication with 
00:14:bf:cd:a2:0b timed out.

That repeats at ten-second intervals.

-Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA
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