wifi applet crashes all the time and cannot find networks

[Orangeduck]

Binary package hint: wifi-radar

Using Karmic Koala the wifi crashes and cannot find any networks. I also tried install proprietary drives and running an update but it didn't help.

After installing Proprietary drives It listed that the wireless should be able to connect but it just didn't find any networks - before that there was only a list of ethernet connections.

On a Dell Inspiron 1545 laptop.

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Nov 1 18:26:59 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/sbin/wifi-radar
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.6
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
Package: wifi-radar 2.0.s05-1
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python -OO /usr/sbin/wifi-radar
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
PythonArgs: ['/usr/sbin/wifi-radar']
SourcePackage: wifi-radar
Title: wifi-radar crashed with SyntaxError in read()
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic x86_64
UserGroups:

[Orangeduck (theonlydancingbanana)]

Hmm, I connected to a network directly (via the connect to hidden network dialogue) and it seems to be working now. Strange.

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Thank you for taking the time to report this crash and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular crash has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug #416007, so is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Please continue to report any other bugs you may find.