Hi, I've just upgraded from Hardy to Intrepid from the official release on a laptop with a Broadcom 4311 wireless card. With Hardy, it worked fine using the b43-fwcutter driver on a WPA-PSK network, but when the STA driver came out, I just had endless prompts for the password and a spinning circle. I reverted to the old driver and assumed when Intrepid came out it would be fixed.
Move forward to present: yesterday I upgraded using 'update-manager -d' and had a working wireless connection still using the b43 driver for a couple hours while I was trying to figure out a separate issue with logging onto my Gnome desktop. I then decided to try the STA driver to see if it was working, but I got the same behaviour as before, so I again reverted to the old driver, only this time it did the same password prompt/spinning circle loop with it as well. I tried wicd and connecting manually, but neither worked. A wired connection works fine, however, as does an unencrypted wireless one.
Here's where it gets weird. I downloaded and burned the livecd to see if it was because of some corrupted config file from the upgrade. I booted from it and set the b43 driver up and it connected to my wireless network first time. I then spent the next few hours looking for similar problems on the forums to see if I could figure out what had gone wrong before doing a fresh install, as I didn't want the hassle of having to download the extra programs and redoing all my settings, but after trying a bunch of different things, I still hadn't solved it. So I put the livecd back in planning on doing an install, but wanted to quickly check something online before I did so. Set up the b43 driver again, watched the spinning circle and several password prompts later figured out that the cd that worked a few hours before now doesn't work.
Maybe it's my card, but I don't think so. The reason being that I've since done a fresh install anyways on the offchance that it would work (it didn't, but it fixed a couple other things so oh well) but discovered by trial and error that setting my router to WPA2 works for some reason. (Also the new STA driver works really well compared to the old one. I've got about ten different networks showing up on my scan where before it struggled to pick up two and my home router was less than 50% unless I was sitting next to it. But I digress...)
I'm attaching my syslog from today. The successful connection at the end is just after I changed to WPA2. All the unsuccessful ones before then were with WPA. Also, I've added the ppa network manager archive to my repositories, so I've got the most recent NM packages.
Oh yeah, I forgot to mention I'm running the 64 bit version.
Regards.