To whome it may concern: My problems from above seem to have been because I was running thud. I just upgraded to zeus which broke my network config. Changing back to your filename for the conf file worked.
So everthing worked for me on thud using the filename “wpa_supplicant-wlan0.conf” and now it works on zeus with filename “wpa_supplicant-nl80211-wlan0.conf”.