Upgraded to Natty and it connected to the wireless straightaway. I think the 2.6.38 kernel fixes this issue as it has the drivers all sorted. Plus Natty is really cool

Aha, thats some progress on your side. I seemed to have an old copy of this post in my browser and didnt see your second post.

However I installed the linux backport maveric generic and rfkill now...

What a coincidence, I got the same machine yesterday and have spent the whole day yesterday trying to find a solution until I reached http://intellinuxwireless.org/ and yes ofcourse the note at the...