rfkill list says your wifi is blocked by acer-wireless, that's why it's shown as disabled. Wicd probably ignores this as the wifi card itself (phy0) is not blocked. So in fact it's a bug in the kernel's acer-wmi module. You can blacklist acer-wmi in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf to get around this.
** Package changed: network-manager (Ubuntu) => linux (Ubuntu) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/882691 Title: Kubuntu can't turn on Wi-Fi on Acer Aspire One AOA101 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/882691/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
