Comment 21 for bug 1035590

Confirmed that this is happening on Linux Mint 13 (Mate). Did an apt-get dist-upgrade after a fresh install and can see the grayed out nm-applet with no signal strength and not showing that it is connected even though it is. Connected AP shows up in list as if it were not connected.
Confirmed that this is still broken on kernel -32 and -33. Reverted to kernel 3.2.0-23 to get things working normally again. Hope this helps. I am not on that machine now so I can't get exact broken kernel numbers. Have not tried to enable "Romeo" unstable repository which is probably like the precise-proposed repo.