Please find kern.log attached. I ran sudo iwconfig wlan0 mode managed but that command just wound up hanging.
Interestingly I did a watch cat /proc/interrupts and 1: 1003 XT-PIC-XT i8042 which appears to be my PS/2 keyboard continued to increase only when I pressed keys on the keyboard. However the input was never registered by X (and I could not switch to a virtual terminal). Wifi card is a Netgear MA311: 00:0f.0 Network controller: Intersil Corporation Prism 2.5 Wavelan chipset (rev 01) ** Attachment added: "kern.log" http://librarian.launchpad.net/6670581/kern.log -- Keyboard killed when using hostap_pci with NetworkManager https://launchpad.net/bugs/89464 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs