Bug 78037 may be informative. The workaround is: sudo ifconfig [interface] down sudo iwconfig [interface] essid [essid] key [key] sudo ifconfig [interface] up sudo dhclient3 [interface]
This just worked for me using WEP through both rt2500 and prism54 cards in Feisty (bug 82711). Something like it may help with WPA. -- [prism2.5] doesn't associate for network-manager with hostap_cs https://launchpad.net/bugs/57146 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs