I think the problem was that the certs I generated for CA and server weren't in the ssl/certs directory though they were in the raddb/ certs directory. Other than that, I don't think I did anything different between attempts at CA and cert creation when I finally got it working. Definitely didn't change my radiusd.conf, clients.conf or eap.conf files between attempts, so it was definitely cert related.
I need to experiment a little more to see where I went wrong the first couple attempts, but all the conf files were correct as I didn't change them between attempts.
Did you do anything differently with your 'random' file and your 'dh' file? Creating those properly (as opposed to the idiotic directions of "date > dh; date > random") seemed to solve my dilemma when I was getting a similar issue to what you were getting. -kb -- Kris Benson, CCP, I.S.P. Technical Analyst, District Projects School District #57 (Prince George)