Thanks to all for their efforts.
I look forward to paying back in kind.

I run a small business, so have had to reinstall Debian unstable, which is what I usually run. Non-free firmware is required to run the network card on that, so I think it may be the network card holding up the works here. I've been wanting to get into the BSD aspect for a while now, however, and se...

No, that was actually a typo.
It's right in the file, itself.
I've been working on this for a couple of nights now, and I think at about that stage my eyelids were resting on my knees.
I've got to retype everything out here, because I can't copy and paste from one machine to the other.

'I hope you did not put your real key online. If so? Replace that before your key gets used against you.'

I wish them luck.
I live in a very, very small community on the edge of the desert in Australia.

Just the one thing:

Further to: /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf is configured thusly: network={ ssid="TPW4G_1A785F" bssid=fc:2d:5e:a3:31:e4 key_mgmt=WPA_PSK proto=WPA psk="7JD48D6275" } ...which should be all correct, but with sudo /etc/rc.d/netif restart, I get: Successfully initiated wpa_supplicant Line ...

sysctl net.wlan. devices delivers iwm0 There's a problem getting readouts here because this install is on a laptop and not this machine. If I type all night, I could get it all. cat /etc/rc.conf |grep wlan0 gives: wlans_"iwm0" ifconfig_wlan0="WPA DHCP" sudo ifconfig wlan0 up does...