Please scrub my last comment - I got my terminals mixed up (they all look alike!). The error I was seeing was on my local machine and not my VPS.
My local machine does have wifi and is working. However, I'm still getting the errors and this again is an LTS version. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to bcmwl in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1114281 Title: ERROR @wl_cfg80211_get_station : Could not get rate (-1) Status in “bcmwl” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Since update to 3.2.0-37 wireless is broken. Restart of nm-manager, reboot (also to kernel image -36) has no effect. There was no change of config. Connecting to router ip fails. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04 Package: network-manager 0.9.4.0-0ubuntu4.2 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-37.58-generic 3.2.35 Uname: Linux 3.2.0-37-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: wl ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu17.1 Architecture: amd64 CRDA: Error: [Errno 2] Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden Date: Sun Feb 3 13:04:07 2013 IfupdownConfig: auto lo iface lo inet loopback InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Alpha amd64 (20111129.1) IpRoute: default via 192.168.2.1 dev eth0 proto static 169.254.0.0/16 dev eth0 scope link metric 1000 192.168.2.0/24 dev eth0 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.2.103 metric 1 MarkForUpload: True NetworkManager.state: [main] NetworkingEnabled=true WirelessEnabled=true WWANEnabled=true WimaxEnabled=true ProcEnviron: TERM=xterm PATH=(custom, no user) LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: network-manager UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) nmcli-con: NAME UUID TYPE TIMESTAMP TIMESTAMP-REAL AUTOCONNECT READONLY DBUS-PATH Wired connection 1 4841ef0b-72e1-4da6-a565-49fc6a965a5d 802-3-ethernet 1359892882 So 03 Feb 2013 13:01:22 CET yes no /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Settings/1 zooland 2f9e526f-f75a-4615-85d5-db20651599b4 802-11-wireless 1359883155 So 03 Feb 2013 10:19:15 CET yes no /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Settings/0 nmcli-dev: DEVICE TYPE STATE DBUS-PATH eth1 802-11-wireless disconnected /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/1 eth0 802-3-ethernet connected /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/0 nmcli-nm: RUNNING VERSION STATE NET-ENABLED WIFI-HARDWARE WIFI WWAN-HARDWARE WWAN running 0.9.4.0 connected enabled enabled enabled enabled disabled To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/bcmwl/+bug/1114281/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : kernel-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp