eric wrotedo you have wpa_supplicant service running?
if yes, what do you have in log output?
I started wpa_supplicant with
wpa_supplicant -B -C/var/run/wpa_supplicant -i<interface>
, then I used wpa_cli to connect.
Even using
wpa_supplicant -B -c/mnt/etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf -i<interface>
after mounting my system root on /mnt doesn't work, while it works fine on my system.
I could try pasting the log using an ethernet connection, where is it supposed to be located?