Re: eapol_test giving up and win-like error?

EAP: deinitialize previously used EAP method (25, PEAP) at EAP deinit MPPE keys OK: 0 mismatch: 1 FAILURE

Hmm. I see from your original email that Samba & ntlm_auth are succeeding. There are a couple of buggy version of Samba out there that return invalid response values, and generate these symptoms. Which version of Samba are you running, and on what OS?