How can I make wpa_supplicant more verbose?

[Brian]

On Fri 19 Aug 2011 at 12:31:02 -0400, Glenn Ammons wrote:

> I am having trouble connecting to my father's wireless network and
> would like wpa_supplicant to give me more information in syslog.
> What's the best way to accomplish this?  I don't really know how

Please see: /usr/share/doc/wpasupplicant/README.Debian.gz

wpa-debug-level 3

in the wlan0 stanza in /etc/network/interfaces works for me.