I have the problem as described, with "Texas Instruments ACX 111" chipset using ndiswrapper (which is to say, it is not necessarily only Broadcom chipsets). NetworkManager (or wpasupplicant) does not set essid, if I run manually "iwconfig wlan0 essid XXX" while it tries to associate, it works after that. I upgraded related packages from dapper to current edgy with no luck.
A friend of mine, with Broadcomm 4311 w/ ndiswrapper, has the same problem, too. -- Cannot associate with unencrypted networks using bcm43xx chipset (ndiswrapper driver) https://launchpad.net/bugs/42504 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
