Comment 0 for bug 1063445

When trying to connect to almost any wireless network, it never connects, the indicator just keeps moving until it says Disconnected a minute or so later. This happens 100% of the time with all encryped networks, and 99% of the time with unencrypted networks. I have so far have not been able to connect to an encrypted network, only unencrypted after several tries.
The very rare case when it does actually manage to connect (this is usually after trying to connect for an hour or so, many times beforehand, switching on/off the wireless with the hardware switch), it actually stays connected until you manually disconnect, and is also quite stable (downloads and PPTP connections work with no problem).

Attached is a snippet of the old syslog from a few days ago when I was trying to connect, the current syslog doesn't have any relevant info as I am not near a wireless network currently. I will be in a position to do further testing tomorrow, if needed.

The system is a netbook:
Acer Aspire one,
with Atheros AR5BXB63 wireless card

$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS
Release: 12.04

network-manager:
  Installed: 0.9.4.0-0ubuntu4.1
  Candidate: 0.9.4.0-0ubuntu4.1
  Version table:
 *** 0.9.4.0-0ubuntu4.1 0
        500 http://si.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise-updates/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     0.9.4.0-0ubuntu3 0
        500 http://si.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/main i386 Packages

03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR242x / AR542x Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) (rev 01)
 Subsystem: Foxconn International, Inc. Device e008
 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 18
 Memory at 55200000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
 Capabilities: <access denied>
 Kernel driver in use: ath5k
 Kernel modules: ath5k

$ iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

virbr0 no wireless extensions.

wlan0 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:"Prospero632"
          Mode:Managed Frequency:2.462 GHz Access Point: 02:30:B4:0B:56:50
          Bit Rate=1 Mb/s Tx-Power=20 dBm
          Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality=13/70 Signal level=-97 dBm
          Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:1 Invalid misc:2 Missed beacon:0

eth0 no wireless extensions.

$ lspci -v

(omitted irrelevant devices)

03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR242x / AR542x Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) (rev 01)
 Subsystem: Foxconn International, Inc. Device e008
 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 18
 Memory at 55200000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
 Capabilities: <access denied>
 Kernel driver in use: ath5k
 Kernel modules: ath5k

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: network-manager 0.9.4.0-0ubuntu4.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-31.50-generic-pae 3.2.28
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-31-generic-pae i686
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu13
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Oct 7 23:01:50 2012
IfupdownConfig:
 auto lo
 iface lo inet loopback
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release i386 (20110427.1)
IpRoute:
 default via 10.1.0.1 dev eth0 proto static
 10.1.0.0/24 dev eth0 proto kernel scope link src 10.1.0.200 metric 1
 169.254.0.0/16 dev eth0 scope link metric 1000
 192.168.122.0/24 dev virbr0 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.122.1
NetworkManager.state:
 [main]
 NetworkingEnabled=true
 WirelessEnabled=true
 WWANEnabled=true
RfKill:
 0: phy0: Wireless LAN
  Soft blocked: no
  Hard blocked: no
SourcePackage: network-manager
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-07-13 (86 days ago)
nmcli-dev:
 DEVICE TYPE STATE DBUS-PATH
 wlan0 802-11-wireless disconnected /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/1
 eth0 802-3-ethernet connected /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/0
nmcli-nm:
 RUNNING VERSION STATE NET-ENABLED WIFI-HARDWARE WIFI WWAN-HARDWARE WWAN
 running 0.9.4.0 connected enabled enabled enabled enabled enabled