`lshw -c network` showing drivers that I blacklisted

`lshw -c network` showing drivers that I blacklisted

I'm trying to get a usb dongle based on an 8192CU chip to work in Ubuntu
server.
I've been all over and have done lots of things to try to get this working
with wpa_supplicant to no avail.
My latest efforts are focused around updating the drivers. I've installed
the new 8192cu drivers. I have blacklisted the old rtl8192cu drivers. The
new 8192cu drivers appear when I run lsmod but also shows used by 0.
Trying to use wpa_supplicant:
sudo wpa_supplicant -D wext -i wlan0 -c /etc/wpa_supplican/test.conf -d
Gets me:
Driver did not support SIOCSIWENCODEEXT
Running without -d
sudo wpa_supplicant -D wext -i wlan0 -c /etc/wpa_supplican/test.conf
Gets me:
Association request to the driver failed
I've tried nl80211, but the wpa_supplicant results in 'failed to
initialize driver interface'. I'm assuming this doesn't work.
If I run sudo iwlist scan, I can see the AP I want to associate with.
when I run:
lshw -c network
the wlan0 interface shows up but in the configuration section, it lists:
...driver=rtl8192cu...
which is blacklisted.
This seems wrong, and I feel like this is causing me my problems. How do I
fix this?
EDIT1:
lsmod
Module Size Used by
nouveau 855013 1
snd_emu10k1x 19556 0
snd_rawmidi 25426 1 snd_emu10k1x
snd_seq_device 14138 1 snd_rawmidi
ttm 76326 1 nouveau
snd_ac97_codec 106118 1 snd_emu10k1x
dcdbas 14099 0
drm_kms_helper 47459 1 nouveau
snd_pcm 81124 2 snd_emu10k1x,snd_ac97_codec
drm 240232 3 nouveau,ttm,drm_kms_helper
microcode 18396 0
snd_timer 28932 1 snd_pcm
snd 62675 6
snd_emu10k1x,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer
soundcore 14636 1 snd
ac97_bus 12671 1 snd_ac97_codec
i2c_algo_bit 13317 1 nouveau
snd_page_alloc 14109 2 snd_emu10k1x,snd_pcm
lpc_ich 16993 0
psmouse 91022 0
emu10k1_gp 12578 0
serio_raw 13032 0
gameport 15089 2 emu10k1_gp
mxm_wmi 12894 1 nouveau
video 19070 1 nouveau
wmi 18745 2 nouveau,mxm_wmi
mac_hid 13078 0
shpchp 32326 0
parport_pc 32115 1
8192cu 502664 0
ppdev 12850 0
lp 17456 0
parport 40931 3 parport_pc,ppdev,lp
hid_generic 12485 0
usbhid 46054 0
hid 82511 2 hid_generic,usbhid
usb_storage 39720 1
uas 17745 0
e100 36324 0
sata_sil 13276 4
floppy 60214 0
raid10 47818 0
raid456 65740 0
async_raid6_recov 12947 1 raid456
async_pq 12960 2 raid456,async_raid6_recov
raid6_pq 96919 2 async_raid6_recov,async_pq
async_xor 12739 3 raid456,async_raid6_recov,async_pq
xor 26091 1 async_xor
async_memcpy 12482 2 raid456,async_raid6_recov
async_tx 13124 5
raid456,async_raid6_recov,async_pq,async_xor,async_memcpy
raid1 35061 2
raid0 17102 0
multipath 12978 0
linear 12767 0
..
lshw -c network
*-network DISABLED
description: Ethernet interface
product: 82801DB PRO/100 VE (LOM) Ethernet Controller
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 8
bus info: pci@0000:02:08.0
logical name: eth0
version: 81
serial: 00:07:e9:da:06:c4
size: 10Mbit/s
capacity: 100Mbit/s
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp mii 10bt
10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd autonegotiation
configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=e100
driverversion=3.5.24-k2-NAPI duplex=half latency=64 link=no
maxlatency=56 mingnt=8 multicast=yes port=MII speed=10Mbit/s
resources: irq:20 memory:fe1fe000-fe1fefff ioport:ec80(size=64)
*-network DISABLED
description: Wireless interface
physical id: 1
bus info: usb@1:1
logical name: wlan0
serial: 14:d6:4d:47:13:a7
capabilities: ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=rtl8192cu multicast=yes
wireless=unassociated