I'm running in to problems with my acer centrino also. My access point is not broadcasting SSID and is using wep open.
I can't get it to connect, but i see a similarity, the first time I entered the wrong authentication details, and now i can't completely delete the connection. -- Centrino wireless networking does not connect (herd 5) https://launchpad.net/bugs/89493 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs