for some time I've been using local WPE wi-fi, which was simply managed using iwconfig, using the following line of commands on the startup:

sudo modprobe wl && sudo ifconfig eth1 up && sudo iwconfig eth1 essid <my_network_name> && sudo dhclient eth1

however, things have changed and now I need to use WPA-2 type of connection

to achieve that, I've downloaded and installed Wicd network manager, which starts to detect connections after I execute the following:

sudo modprobe wl && sudo ifconfig eth1 up

the problem is, despite it works fine connecting to WPE, it completely fails to get along with WPA-2: when I enter 'properties' for my WPA-2 connection, I can't save any keys I enter, nor 'cancel' or 'ok' buttons seem to work anyhow

at last, I've tried to read manuals and configure /etc/network/interfaces, having the following:

iface eth1 inet dhcp

wpa-driver wext

wpa-ssid <my_wifi_name>

wpa-ap scan 1

wpa-proto RSN

wpa-group CCMP

wpa-key-mgmt WPA-PSK

wpa-psk <my_pass_HEX>

auto eth1

I've commented what I had there before:

auto lo

iface lo inet loopback

sadly, when my system loads it takes several minutes at the boot configuring the network, which ends with no success

so, since nicely working Wicd manager would be the best option, I'd gladly use any possible method to get online again.

I'm running Linux Mint 14 Nadia kernel 3.9.3