Have you tried connecting via the wpa-supplicant.exe?
    

I am not sure how to do this.  

  

I found that I can only way I use xwlan to use wpa is to limit the psk to 43 characters though wpa-supplicant allows 63.
    

Thanks, I was actually using a very short passkey, 10 characters. After changing it to 43 characters, I am now reliably connecting to the
gateway.  The status icon is always green bars and the info box shows
it connected using WPA2-PSK with the correct  LAN & IP address. However, I still cannot communicate with the network.  I can self ping
and get a proper return, but pinging any other box on the net does not
result in returned packets.