By the way, by "out of the box" I meant "using NetworkManager". I entered my essid/key in knetworkmanager, but the network failed to start. Then I tried manual configuration with iwconfig as mentioned above, and it did not work until I figured out that the interface must be down prior to setting the essid.
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