Estoy ahora en Linux Mint 10, de todas formas, aunque no tenga verbose, el comando suelta verborrea... voy a dar por perdido el wifi... mira que le mandé un Mail a TP-Link preguntando si funcionaban con Linux y todo, me pasaron la dirección del driver y me dijeron que sí que funcionaba bien... bueno... mira mi I/O:
Bixarraco filter # iwconfig wlan2 essid "TheBest" key restricted XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX ap 00:18:F8:71:3C:9E
Bixarraco filter # iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
vboxnet0 no wireless extensions.
wlan2 IEEE 802.11bgn ESSID:"TheBest"
Mode:Managed Access Point: Not-Associated Tx-Power=20 dBm
Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:xxxxxxx................
Power Management:off
Bixarraco filter # dhclient wlan2
There is already a pid file /var/run/dhclient.pid with pid 5818
killed old client process, removed PID file
Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.1.3
Copyright 2004-2009 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit
https://www.isc.org/software/dhcp/Listening on LPF/wlan2/74:ea:3a:8f:c1:d1
Sending on LPF/wlan2/74:ea:3a:8f:c1:d1
Sending on Socket/fallback
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan2 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 3
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan2 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 5
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan2 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 10
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan2 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 10
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan2 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 10
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan2 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 12
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan2 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan2 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 3
No DHCPOFFERS received.
No working leases in persistent database - sleeping.
Bixarraco filter # dhclient wlan2
There is already a pid file /var/run/dhclient.pid with pid 5922
killed old client process, removed PID file
Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.1.3
Copyright 2004-2009 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit
https://www.isc.org/software/dhcp/Listening on LPF/wlan2/74:ea:3a:8f:c1:d1
Sending on LPF/wlan2/74:ea:3a:8f:c1:d1
Sending on Socket/fallback
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan2 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 3
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan2 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan2 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 17
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan2 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 11
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan2 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 12
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan2 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 9
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan2 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 1
No DHCPOFFERS received.
No working leases in persistent database - sleeping.
Bixarraco filter # iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
vboxnet0 no wireless extensions.
wlan2 IEEE 802.11bgn ESSID:"TheBest"
Mode:Managed Access Point: Not-Associated Tx-Power=20 dBm
Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:xxxxxx.........
Power Management:off
Bixarraco filter # ifconfig wlan2 192.168.0.22 netmask 255.255.255.224 (Lo de la máscara de red es una larga historia y se quedó así)
Bixarraco filter # iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
vboxnet0 no wireless extensions.
wlan2 IEEE 802.11bgn ESSID:"TheBest"
Mode:Managed Access Point: Not-Associated Tx-Power=20 dBm
Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:xxxxx.....
Power Management:off
Voy a tirar el TP-Link por la ventana

a ver si con el viajecito vuelve más obediente...
Bixarraco filter # dmesg | tail
[ 3684.349969] (2402000 KHz - 2482000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (N/A, 2000 mBm)
[ 3684.349972] (5735000 KHz - 5835000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (N/A, 3000 mBm)
[ 3684.360983] udev[3367]: renamed network interface wlan0 to wlan2
[ 3883.506140] wlan2: authenticate with 00:18:f8:71:3c:9e (try 1)
[ 3883.511191] wlan2: 00:18:f8:71:3c:9e denied authentication (status 13)
[ 3883.771899] wlan2: authenticate with 00:18:f8:71:3c:9e (try 1)
[ 3883.970050] wlan2: authenticate with 00:18:f8:71:3c:9e (try 2)
[ 3884.170049] wlan2: authenticate with 00:18:f8:71:3c:9e (try 3)
[ 3884.370191] wlan2: authentication with 00:18:f8:71:3c:9e timed out