wireless network edgy ppc beta not working

edgy beta ppc clean install

wired network works after touching /etc/network/interfaces, adding ip addresses. If not done so, won't keep network data.

wireless network does not work out of the box.

installation of fw-bcm43xx-cutter, firmware for airport extreme card through synaptic. Not added none repository other than standard provided by distro.

after firmware update, network-manager shows up available wireless networks protected and unprotected but is not possible connect to any.

touched System>Administration>Network to save location for home wireless. Locations are not kept. I set wireless location with wired network not active, apply changes but get no effect on network improvement.

Restult for 'iwconfig':
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lo no wireless extensions.

eth1 IEEE 802.11b/g ESSID:"-" Nickname:"Broadcom 4306"
          Mode:Managed Frequency=2.437 GHz Access Point: HexAddress
          Bit Rate:1 Mb/s Tx-Power=15 dBm
          RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
          Link Quality=90/100 Signal level=-45 dBm Noise level=-71 dBm
          Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:1 Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

eth0 no wireless extensions.

sit0 no wireless extensions.
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Results for 'iwlist eth1 scan':
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eth1 Scan completed :
          Cell 01 - Address: 00:01:38:43:46:EA
                    ESSID:"7969849683"
                    Protocol:IEEE 802.11bg
                    Mode:Master
                    Channel:6
                    Encryption key:on
                    Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s; 9 Mb/s
                              11 Mb/s; 12 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s; 24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s
                              48 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s
                    Quality=100/100 Signal level=-87 dBm
                    Extra: Last beacon: 548ms ago
          Cell 02 - Address: hex address
                    ESSID:"-"
                    Protocol:IEEE 802.11b
                    Mode:Master
                    Channel:10
                    Encryption key:off
                    Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s
                    Quality=100/100 Signal level=-32 dBm
                    Extra: Last beacon: 2076ms ago
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Then, card is seeing networks. But ping the accesspoint is not available, neither ping gateway.

The '/etc/network/interfaces' file is:
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auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

iface eth0 inet static
address 192.168.0.5
netmask 255.255.255.0
gateway 192.168.0.254

auto eth2
iface eth2 inet dhcp

auto ath0
iface ath0 inet dhcp

auto wlan0
iface wlan0 inet dhcp

iface eth1 inet static
address 192.168.0.6
netmask 255.255.255.0
gateway 192.168.0.254
wireless-essid Apache
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This file output appears just when changing location from wired to wireless

the "eth1" part I've included the pre-up, and stuff that appears in:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/Driver/bcm43xx/Dapper#head-d0946e95811e2999580f6073e165fa66c3709f01
 and done as stated there.

Besides, every time I change from wired to wireless, i get the not configured interface in the "System>Administration>Network" and have to get to properties of wireles card to activate as appears as deactivated. change from dhcp to static as seems not to keep the saved profile.