Comment 23 for bug 300563

Brand new DELL Mini; ships with up-to-date 8.04 (no updates available from GUI or command line).

Wireless works, except when connecting to my WAP (i.e., I can borrow from my neighbours but not use my own).

My WAP: WRT54GL running White Russian 0.9, WPA (PSK), WPA2, AES. Not using TKIP, not using WEP, not using WPA1.

Tried the "disable power management" workaround from ubuntumini.com - no effect.

Tried Feisty_No-fluff steps 1, 2e, 3 - no effect. (What's really weird is that wl still shows up in the device manager gui - I suppose this could be the module loading bug, but the fixes to that don't seem to work either. Also really weird that lshw -C network lists ndiswrapper+bcmwl5, etc., as the driver, but GUI still shows wl.)

Tried the disable bluetooth workaround - interesting effect! With bluetooth running, attempt to connect to my WAP and system locks showing the GUI - just looks frozen; with bluetooth disabled in BIOS, GUI borks - ctrl-fn-alt-f1 to another vt and screen is filled with jagged lines. Don't know what value this data point is, but the nature of the failure is different.

Will be more than pleased to attach whatever diagnostic information may be of value.