wireless driver+encryption on wicd

[Mike McMullin]

  I'm trying to connect my laptop to my wireless base station using
WICD, but cannot get a connect.
  The base is using WPA Personal, WPA Algorithm: TKIP
  The ESSID shows up but I cannot get a connection, in fact several
secure networks show up.
  The laptop has an Atheros AR2413 on the pci bus, and the kernel module
in use is: ATH5K, Ubuntu9.04 with 2.6.28-15-generic.  I had been using
the mad-wifi driver under openSuSE11.1.