It looks like the diffs I'm going to attach are solving the problem for me. These are an integration of the SuSE patches to wpa_supplicant and network-manager, as well as some adjustments from the fedora patchset. I can post some .deb files as well if that would help with testing.
-- Cannot associate with unencrypted networks using bcm43xx https://launchpad.net/bugs/42504 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
