I fought and won over WLAN drivers and Linux, but later switched to using a Mac, because driver support for WLAN , printers and other hardware is non-existent Linux:

   1  apt-get install wpasupplicant
   2  
   3  http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=313914
   4  
   5  vim /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
   6  
   7  ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
   8  ctrl_interface_group=0
   9  eapol_version=1
  10  ap_scan=2
  11  fast_reauth=1
  12  
  13  
  14  network={
  15      ssid="...yer-ssid..."
  16      scan_ssid=1
  17      proto=WPA
  18      key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
  19      psk="...yer-pass..."
  20      priority=5
  21      pairwise=TKIP
  22  }
  23  
  24  vim /etc/network/interfaces
  25  
  26  auto lo
  27  iface lo inet loopback
  28  
  29  auto eth1
  30  iface eth1 inet dhcp
  31     wpa-driver wext
  32     wpa-conf /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
  33  
  34  auto wlan0
  35  iface wlan0 inet dhcp
  36  
  37  iface eth0 inet dhcp
  38  
  39  auto eth0
  40  
  41  vim /etc/init.d/wpasupplicant
  42  
  43  #!/bin/sh
  44  
  45  PATH=/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin
  46  
  47  case "$1" in
  48          start|restart|force-reload)
  49                  wpa_supplicant -Dwext -iwlan0 -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf -dd -B
  50                  ;;
  51          stop)
  52                  killall -9 wpa_supplicant
  53                  ;;
  54          *)
  55                  echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart|force-reload}" >&2
  56                  exit 3
  57                  ;;
  58  esac
  59  
  60  exit 0
  61  
  62  ----------------
  63  
  64  chmod +x ...
  65  cd /etc/rcS.d
  66  ln -s ../init.d/wpasupplicant S40iwpa
  67  
  68  
  69  -------------
  70  
  71  auto lo
  72  iface lo inet loopback
  73  
  74  auto eth1
  75  iface eth1 inet dhcp
  76  
  77  auto wlan0
  78  iface wlan0 inet dhcp