Comment 26 for bug 50214

Confirmed: Feisty latest, IPW3945.

I didn't have the problem in Edgy, but it's likely because I used manual config of /etc/network/interfaces to setup my own maintained /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf file. Even doing that, at some point I believe I was force to tell iwconfig what the ssid was and then I could connect. ap_scan and ssid_scan settings used to let me connect fine. I thought I was just going nuts and that it didn't work as I thought it once did. Still think I'm nuts, but at least I believe this is not one example. :)

This resolution makes sense. Looking forward to updates fixing this. recompiling kernels is a thing which should stay in my past, when I didn't have as much else to worry about. Maintaining out-of-circulation packages (especially kernels) just doesn't scale or make sense for corporate use.