Your card may simply be one of many that has issues with wpasupplicant. Take a look at bug 48473, and see if downgrading solves your problems.
Have you given this a try in edgy? You can definitely associate through static and DHCP configuration in /etc/network/interfaces. That is what is connecting you to the Internet in the earlier cases, and not NetworkManager. ** Summary changed: - NetworkManager say working wireless network broken + [dapper] NM unable to associate with Linksys USB Wireless Adapter. -- [dapper] NM unable to associate with Linksys USB Wireless Adapter. https://launchpad.net/bugs/48754 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
