My Dell Inspiron 1501 apparently has the same problem with the STA driver, and I can confirm that the workaround proposed by jejbarr for duplicate bug 732038 works for me. Of course this uses the B43 driver, not the STA driver....
What I did:
· used the additional drivers GUI to deactivate the STA driver;
· sudo apt-get install firmware-b43-installer
· restarted
· I had to use FUNCTION-F2 to turn the wifi on
My Dell Inspiron 1501 apparently has the same problem with the STA driver, and I can confirm that the workaround proposed by jejbarr for duplicate bug 732038 works for me. Of course this uses the B43 driver, not the STA driver....
What I did:
· used the additional drivers GUI to deactivate the STA driver; b43-installer
· sudo apt-get install firmware-
· restarted
· I had to use FUNCTION-F2 to turn the wifi on