wireless setup

[Derek Funk]

I am trying to setup a wireless nic on a machine I just installed pcbsd 
8.0 on.
Its not going well.

output from ifconfig -a is:
                 re0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> 
metric 0 mtu 1500
                         
options=389b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,VLAN_HWCSUM,WOL_UCAST,WOL_MCAST,WOL_MAGIC>
                         ether 00:1e:33:99:a1:a3
                         inet6 fe80::21e:33ff:fe99:a1a3%re0 prefixlen 64 
scopeid 0x1
                         media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX 
<full-duplex>)
                         status: active
                 ath0: 
flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 2290
                         ether 00:1e:33:99:a1:a3
                         media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect 
mode 11g
                         status: associated
                 pflog0: flags=0<> metric 0 mtu 33200
                 pfsync0: flags=0<> metric 0 mtu 1460
                         syncpeer: 224.0.0.240 maxupd: 128
                 lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> metric 0 
mtu 16384
                         options=3<RXCSUM,TXCSUM>
                         inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
                         inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
                         inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x5
                 lagg0: 
flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
                         ether 00:1e:33:99:a1:a3
                         inet6 fe80::21e:33ff:fe99:a1a3%lagg0 prefixlen 
64 scopeid 0x6
                         inet 10.254.239.136 netmask 0xffffff00 
broadcast 10.254.239.255
                         media: Ethernet autoselect
                         status: active
                         laggproto failover
                         laggport: wlan0 flags=0<>
                         laggport: re0 flags=5<MASTER,ACTIVE>
                 wlan0: 
flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
                         ether 00:1e:33:99:a1:a3
                         inet6 fe80::21e:33ff:fe99:a1a3%wlan0 prefixlen 
64 scopeid 0x7
                         media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect 
(autoselect)
                         status: no carrier
                         ssid "" channel 12 (2467 Mhz 11g)
                         regdomain 101 indoor ecm authmode 
WPA1+WPA2/802.11i privacy ON
                         deftxkey UNDEF txpower 20 bmiss 7 scanvalid 450 
bgscan bgscanintvl 300
                         bgscanidle 250 roam:rssi 7 roam:rate 5 protmode 
CTS wme burst
                         roaming MANUAL bintval 0
                   lo1: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> metric 
0 mtu 16384
                         options=3<RXCSUM,TXCSUM>
                         inet 10.1.1.1 netmask 0xffffff00

and my rc.conf is:(with some unrelated info omitted)
                 background_dhclient="YES"

                 # Enable the pcbsd startup / shutdown scripts
                 pcbsdinit_enable="YES"


                 # Denyhosts Startup
                 denyhosts_enable="YES"

                 # Enable the firewall
                 pf_rules="/etc/pf.conf"
                 pf_enable="YES"
                 pf_flags=""

                 # Enable ipfw and open it by default since we have PF
                 firewall_enable="YES"
                 firewall_type="open"

                 # Enable IPV6 support
                 ipv6_enable="YES"

                 # Auto-Enabled NICs from pc-sysinstall
                 ifconfig_re0="up"
                 ifconfig_ath0="`ifconfig re0 ether`"
                 ifconfig_ath0="ether ${ifconfig_ath0##*ether }"
                 wlans_ath0="wlan0"
                 cloned_interfaces="lagg0"
                 ifconfig_lagg0="laggproto failover laggport re0 
laggport wlan0 DHCP"
                 hostname="pcbsd-6415"
                 ifconfig_wlan0="WPA"

I have looked in the handbook and searched the net and tried what I 
found and still no go.
I am trying to connect to open access points around me that a windows 
machine has no problem using.
Any help is appreciated.

Derek