I have confirmed with my local HP representative that the wireless card is indeed being shut-off during my connection attempt. I'm marking this bug as new again, and can provide more information if the syslog is not useful.
-- network manager continues trying to connect to wireless network, even if wireless card is hardware-disconnected during connectin attempt https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/304509 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs