Comment 10 for bug 1142385

Here's something else interesting, if I disable wifi and re-enable it after manually connecting the connection is fine. It's as if you have to tell the card that the ESSID is what it is and then it'll connect no problems.
Also curiously, apparently the wlan0 interface doesn't exist and hence, running other iwlist commands there are no settings related to it. iwlist suggests the device is there but unconfigured, iwconfig says the device doesn't exist at all, and yet it works clear as day if you manually connect (I'm typing on here right now.)
http://paste.ubuntu.com/5643575/