<Solved, sort of> No valid active connections found!

[flieger]

I can boot with an install CD and they all appear.

Boot from the hard drive and I get the message in the title.

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* I. scanning WIFI PCI devices...
-- Qualcomm Atheros AR928X Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) (rev 01)
==> PCI ID = 168c:002a (rev 01)
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* II. querying ndiswrapper...
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* III. querying iwconfig...
wlan0 IEEE 802.11abgn ESSID:off/any
Mode:Managed Access Point: Not-Associated Tx-Power=15 dBm
Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off

lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

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* IV. querying ifconfig...
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 90:e6:ba:31:92:f5
inet addr:10.0.0.2 Bcast:10.0.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::92e6:baff:fe31:92f5/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:2417 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:2478 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:1244476 (1.2 MB) TX bytes:410494 (410.4 KB)

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:65536 Metric:1
RX packets:20 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:20 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:1424 (1.4 KB) TX bytes:1424 (1.4 KB)

wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:26:82:06:ce:25
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

wlan0:avahi Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:26:82:06:ce:25
inet addr:169.254.6.46 Bcast:169.254.255.255 Mask:255.255.0.0
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1


Is there a way to rerset everything without re installing the whole shebang?
I'm a noob to linux, and been at this problem for a couple of days now.

Wired connection works, FWIW.

[JeremyB]

Have you installed all level 1-3 updates? And there is some kernel updates available with the update manager if you click on view and then kernel updates- I believe kernel 3.13.0-32 is the latest from Ubuntu and it might solve this issue and it has some security updates as well

[flieger]

Got tired of wrestling with it and reinstalled.