Wpa_supplicant fails association/authentication

Question

I've been at this for quite a while and I've looked in a lot of threads for a solution and none of them worked. Out of nowhere my wireless setup just stopped working (I didn't even upgrade anything) and I haven't been able to fix it ever since.
At first I was using netcfg and it started giving me this:
netcfg adn
:: adn up [ BUSY ]
> WPA Authentication/Association Failed
[FAILED]
After trying to figure out why this happened I decided to change to wicd but it also didn't work. So I followed the instructions listed here and when I run wpa_supplicant manually I get the following:
wpa_supplicant -B -Dwext -i wlan0 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf -dd
wpa_supplicant v1.0
Initializing interface 'wlan0' conf '/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf' driver 'wext' ctrl_interface 'N/A' bridge 'N/A'
Configuration file '/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf' -> '/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf'
Reading configuration file '/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf'
ctrl_interface='DIR=/run/wpa_supplicant GROUP=wheel'
ap_scan=1
fast_reauth=1
Line: 4 - start of a new network block
scan_ssid=1 (0x1)
ssid - hexdump_ascii(len=29):
61 5f 68 75 6d 62 6c 65 5f 67 75 79 5f 77 69 74 a_humble_guy_wit
68 5f 61 5f 68 75 67 65 5f 64 69 63 6b h_a_huge_dick
PSK - hexdump(len=32): [REMOVED]
proto: 0x1
key_mgmt: 0x2
pairwise: 0x8
group: 0x8
Priority group 0
id=0 ssid='a_humble_guy_with_a_huge_dick'
WEXT: cfg80211-based driver detected
wext: interface wlan0 phy: phy0
rfkill: initial event: idx=0 type=1 op=0 soft=0 hard=0
SIOCGIWRANGE: WE(compiled)=22 WE(source)=21 enc_capa=0xf
capabilities: key_mgmt 0xf enc 0xf flags 0x0
netlink: Operstate: linkmode=1, operstate=5
wlan0: Own MAC address: 00:22:fb:6b:fb:0a
wpa_driver_wext_set_key: alg=0 key_idx=0 set_tx=0 seq_len=0 key_len=0
wpa_driver_wext_set_key: alg=0 key_idx=1 set_tx=0 seq_len=0 key_len=0
wpa_driver_wext_set_key: alg=0 key_idx=2 set_tx=0 seq_len=0 key_len=0
wpa_driver_wext_set_key: alg=0 key_idx=3 set_tx=0 seq_len=0 key_len=0
wpa_driver_wext_set_countermeasures
wlan0: RSN: flushing PMKID list in the driver
wlan0: Setting scan request: 0 sec 100000 usec
WPS: Set UUID for interface wlan0
WPS: UUID based on MAC address - hexdump(len=16): e7 b8 35 ce 12 0f 5c d9 88 00 dd 38 8b 79 eb 7d
EAPOL: SUPP_PAE entering state DISCONNECTED
EAPOL: Supplicant port status: Unauthorized
EAPOL: KEY_RX entering state NO_KEY_RECEIVE
EAPOL: SUPP_BE entering state INITIALIZE
EAP: EAP entering state DISABLED
EAPOL: Supplicant port status: Unauthorized
EAPOL: Supplicant port status: Unauthorized
ctrl_interface_group=10 (from group name 'wheel')
wlan0: Added interface wlan0
Daemonize..
After this trying to run dhcpcd or dhclient fails. I don't really understand what's wrong with that output and searching for bits of it gives me no answers that worked. I've also tried removing related packages and their configuration files and then starting from scratch but it also didn't work.
This is my /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf:
ctrl_interface=DIR=/run/wpa_supplicant GROUP=wheel
ap_scan=1
fast_reauth=1
network={
scan_ssid=1
ssid=ID
psk=KEY
proto=WPA
key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
pairwise=TKIP
group=TKIP
Thanks for your time and sorry if I posted this on the wrong forum.
Last edited by adnzzzzZ (2013-01-15 20:01:01)

Answer 1

Yes. I've tried:
wpa_passphrase ID "KEY" > /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
and it doesn't work either.
Last edited by adnzzzzZ (2013-01-16 05:36:30)