Bryan: I don't think that's a wpasupplicant problem, because the driver
1.8.0.0 works with WICD, and manual wpa supplicant configuration, and
even NM 0.6 in Hardy and Debian Lenny. The problem is that NM 0.7 is TOO
SMART, and it just assume that all kernel drivers are also as smart as
it is. NM 0.7 removed the security option (TKIP / CCMP / AES etc) and
just assume that wpasupplicant and the kernel driver should be smart
enough to figure out which one to use.

Personally, I think it's a wrong decision to remove TKIP / CCMP choices
in NM 0.7. You can just imagine how easy it's to add this in NM 0.7
(just a drop down in NM applet and some codes to write pairwise=TKIP in
wpa_supplicant.conf), and how difficult it is to fix all those "stupid"
drivers out there to adapt NM 0.7's smart policy.

And on the other hand, how could you blame the kernel drivers while all
those drivers work with Wicd or NM 0.6, but not NM 0.7??? It will just
force users leave NM and choose alternatives.

And finally, here is my case. I am connecting to company network 
WPA2/TKIP/MSCHAPv2. My test result is:
On Debian Lenny, rt2860sta 1.8.0.0, NM 0.6.6 works, Wicd works
On Ubuntu Jaunty, rt2860sta 1.8.0.0, NM 0.7 won't work, Wicd works
On Ubuntu Jaunty, rt2860sta 1.7.1.1, NM 0.7 works, Wicd works

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RaLink RT2860 won't connect to 802.11n WPA2 networks
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/344022
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