Netcfg wireless-wpa-configsection

In order to use the net-auto-wireless daemon, I'm trying to convert my netcfg profiles from wireless-wpa-config to wireless-wpa-configsection.
The profiles are used for plain WPA connections and changing ESSID and KEY in wireless-wpa-config is usually sufficient to get my wifi working.
However, I'm unsure what things I have to change when going from the wireless-wpa-configsection example. I tried changing ssid and password (and removing some values afterwards) in the CONFIGSECTION string, but I keep getting:
> WPA Authentication/Association Failed
Setting WPA_OPTS created an empty log file and NETCFG_DEBUG="yes" didn't show anything interesting as well...
So what things should I be changing in CONFIGSECTION in order to resolve this?
If you need more details about the specifics of my network(s), please let me know.
Last edited by cafaro (2011-10-31 14:28:23)

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