Comment 37 for bug 1063245

I have today run Update manager and its now working fine. I didn't notice if this updated my kernal but it may have done.

Does the following output make it clear?

warren@dell:~$ uname -a
Linux dell 3.2.0-31-generic-pae #50-Ubuntu SMP Fri Sep 7 16:39:45 UTC 2012 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
warren@dell:~$ sudo iwconfig
[sudo] password for warren:
lo no wireless extensions.

wlan0 IEEE 802.11abgn ESSID:"HS-1gid46vaylveagu59b3ks232h"
          Mode:Managed Frequency:5.18 GHz Access Point: 4C:60:DE:6B:85:4A
          Bit Rate=117 Mb/s Tx-Power=17 dBm
          Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
          Encryption key:off
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality=65/70 Signal level=-45 dBm
          Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:46 Missed beacon:0

eth0 no wireless extensions.