Trying to get freeRADIUS to work in Windows

[k61824]

I have read the article "How To: Setting up FreeRADIUS for WPA & WPA2 Enterprise" in SmallNetBuilder and I am trying to set it up on windows,

using
Linksys WRT54Gv2
freeRADIUS 1.1.7-r0.0.2 from http://freeradius.net/
openSSL v0.9.8i from http://www.slproweb.com/products/Win32OpenSSL.html

Here is what I have done different from the article (other than using the win32 version of things):
1) Build the CA and certs with openSSL (specified location)
2) copy the CA and certs to a prespecified folder (subfolder of the default certs locations used by freeRADIUS)
3) change the config of the freeRADIUS to locate the copied certs

for some reason I can't get it to work (for some reason no log files are produced by freeRADIUS and Debug mode seems to be more of a flash of command window).

Any help would be really appreciated in setting this up (maybe a part 3 of such article?)