Wifi networkconnection fails

Hi there!
I don't know why, but my ArchLinux system fails everytime I try to connect to any wlan access points. Neither my smartphone's wlan hotspot is working nor my home network.
I even tried wicd, netcfg and wicd and NetworkManager even without protection everything fails...
Wired LAN runs without any problems. Can you please help?
Thank you...
PS:
[paul@HP-ARCH ~]$ iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
wlan0 IEEE 802.11bgn ESSID:off/any
Mode:Managed Access Point: Not-Associated Tx-Power=15 dBm
Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Power Management:off
eth0 no wireless extensions.
[paul@HP-ARCH ~]$ ifconfig
eth0: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 metric 1
inet 192.168.178.24 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.178.255
inet6 2002:4fcb:36d6:0:461e:a1ff:fedb:9fd9 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x0<global>
inet6 fe80::461e:a1ff:fedb:9fd9 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x20<link>
ether 44:1e:a1:db:9f:d9 txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet)
RX packets 14873 bytes 15189832 (14.4 MiB)
RX errors 0 dropped 1 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 11743 bytes 1382961 (1.3 MiB)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0
device interrupt 45 base 0xa000
lo: flags=73<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING> mtu 16436 metric 1
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 255.0.0.0
inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 scopeid 0x10<host>
loop txqueuelen 0 (Local Loopback)
RX packets 11 bytes 684 (684.0 B)
RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 11 bytes 684 (684.0 B)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0
wlan0: flags=4099<UP,BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 metric 1
inet6 fe80::c2f8:daff:fe94:8c7e prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x20<link>
ether c0:f8:da:94:8c:7e txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet)
RX packets 452 bytes 96725 (94.4 KiB)
RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 986 bytes 112103 (109.4 KiB)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0
EDIT: The error which netcfg tells me is "WPA Authentication/Association Failed"
Last edited by pausch (2012-04-16 18:03:25)

My network:
Name (SSID):    Dialog
Encryption Method: WPA + WPA2
Key:    01625016250
Modus:    Infrastructure
Authentification:    WPA-PSK, WPA2-PSK
Dataencrytion:    TKIP, AES-CCMP
-PCI Devices-
Network controller : Atheros Communications Inc. AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter
Ethernet controller : Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller
[paul@HP-ARCH ~]$ uname -a
Linux HP-ARCH 3.3.2-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Sat Apr 14 09:48:37 CEST 2012 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2430M CPU @ 2.40GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
is that enough information? Or can you say me how to get more?
Last edited by pausch (2012-04-16 18:10:46)

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