I also have problems with wireless & slack-current.
For some reason the rc.inet1 script can't make the wireless work, it just goes: wpa_ctrl_open: No such file or directory

The link itself does work with running wpa_supplicant by hand (-Dwext -iwlan0 -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf) and dhcpcd-ing.

I've set WLAN_WPA, WLAN_WPACONF and WLAN_DRIVER in inet1.conf
I've also played around with rc.wireless (and .conf) but afai(g)uess it doesn't get initialized when wpa is used.
(needless (?) to mention it doesn't work without wpa so far)

iwl4965+linksys wrt54gl

So tell us how you configured it in rc.inet1.conf ...

Eric

FWIW the only way I got wpa_supplicant working properly (not just by hand) was to comment out the line in rc.wireless that loads rc.wireless.conf. Otherwise, it kept connecting to the first insecure network it could find (there's lots nearby) and never would connect using my wpa settings.

IFNAME[4]="wlan0"
USE_DHCP[4]="yes"
WLAN_ESSID[4]="my_id"

I've tried setting WLAN_KEY[4] to my key also WLAN_IWPRIV[4] to EncrypType=AES (as i've set that in the router) and supply WPAPSK in it with my key also. I've tried them separate and at once too to no avail.

When I tried the WLAN_WPA* options i commented the WLAN_KEY and WLAN_IWPRIV out.

I've also tried putting the relevant values in /etc/rc.d/rc.wireless.conf in many combinations (eg. having them set in both places, commenting out in rc.inet1.conf but having it in wireless.conf and vice-versa...)

I've tried that, it still doesn't work. Dhcpcd just times out. I'll try increasing it's timeout value in a sec but when I do these manually i instantly get connected so I don't think this is the case.

Edit: after a bit further trying/tweaking. wpa_cli wlan0 status says CONNECTED, so wpa should be okay then. I still can't get an ip with dhcpcd. Tbh, i did get an IP once out of 15 dhcpcd runs so I am really puzzled about what's going on... I googled for this issue, and it doesn't seem unique, but i couldn't find any useful info yet.

pdw_hu ->

if running wpa_supplicant by hand works indeed, why don't you comment everything about wlan0 in rc.inet1.conf out except IFNAME[4]=wlan0 and put wpa_supplicant command followed by "dhcpcd wlan0" into your rc.local ?