Wireless management with wpa_supplicant. How?

[GJones]

Because Wicd refuses to work right, I'm trying the old fashioned method, wpa_supplicant and dhcpcd. Only... That won't work either. And nobody on the internets seems to want to explain it.

So, does anyone know how I can:
- Set a passphrase for a SPECIFIC wireless network using wpa_supplicant, without having to manually edit the configuration file
- Associate with a SPECIFIC wireless network, instead of the strongest one in my vicinity
- Tell Salix to automatically run dhcpcd on wlan0 once I'm associated with a network?

P.S. Why on Earth is wifi via the command line so complicated? Why can't I just do something like

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iwconfig wlan0 essid [essid] key [password]
dhcpcd wlan0

instead of having to muck around with badly documented daemons? Seriously?

[pwatk]

You need wicd to do exactly what you want but Alien BOB's wiki should help you configure rc.inet1.conf and wpa_supplicant.conf for basic networking.

[GJones]

Thank you. Disappointing, but it's good to know that...

And sorry if I came off as rude, BTW.