Here is the problem, I use a Cisco/Linksys AE1200 wireless network adapter to connect my desktop to a public wifi internet connection. I use ndiswrapper to use the windows driver and it had been working fine for me untill I ran the update manager overnight a few days ago. When I woke up it was asking for the normal computer restart to implement the changes but after rebooting the computer, the wireless adapter did not work, the status light on the adapter did not light up even though ubuntu recognizes it is there and according to ndiswrapper the drivers are loaded and the hardware is present.

the grep command is being a bitch for some unknown reason today so this will be long sorry

Output from "lspci":

00:00.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI Radeon Xpress 200 Host Bridge (rev 01)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI RS480 PCI Bridge
00:12.0 SATA controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI SB600 Non-Raid-5 SATA
00:13.0 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI SB600 USB (OHCI0)
00:13.1 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI SB600 USB (OHCI1)
00:13.2 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI SB600 USB (OHCI2)
00:13.3 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI SB600 USB (OHCI3)
00:13.4 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI SB600 USB (OHCI4)
00:13.5 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI SB600 USB Controller (EHCI)
00:14.0 SMBus: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI SBx00 SMBus Controller (rev 13)
00:14.1 IDE interface: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI SB600 IDE
00:14.3 ISA bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI SB600 PCI to LPC Bridge
00:14.4 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI SBx00 PCI to PCI Bridge
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI RC410 [Radeon Xpress 200]
02:02.0 Communication controller: Conexant Systems, Inc. HSF 56k Data/Fax Modem
02:03.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs CA0106 Soundblaster
02:05.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)

Output from "lsusb":

Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 006 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 009: ID 13b1:0039 Linksys AE1200 802.11bgn Wireless Adapter [Broadcom BCM43235]
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 045e:0053 Microsoft Corp. Optical Mouse
Bus 004 Device 002: ID 1043:8006 iCreate Technologies Corp. Flash Disk 32-256 MB

Output from "ifconfig":

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:19:21:b6:af:7c
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
Interrupt:20 Base address:0xb400

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:13232 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:13232 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:1084624 (1.0 MB) TX bytes:1084624 (1.0 MB)

Output from "iwconfig":

lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

Output from "lsmod":

Module                          Size       Used by
nls_iso8859_1                12617      1
nls_cp437                       12751      1
vfat                               17308      1
fat                                  55605      1 vfat
uas                               17828       0
usb_storage                    39646      1
nls_utf8                         12493      1
udf                                 84366      1
crc_itu_t                        12627      1 udf
snd_ca0106                    39279      2
snd_ac97_codec             106082    1  snd_ca0106
ac97_bus                       12642      1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_pcm                         80845      2 snd_ca0106,snd_ac97_codec
rfcomm                           38139      0
snd_seq_midi                 13132       0
snd_rawmidi                    25424      2 snd_ca0106,snd_seq_midi
bnep                               17830      2
parport_pc                      32114     0
bluetooth                         158438    10 rfcomm,bnep
ppdev                              12849      0
snd_seq_midi_event         14475     1 snd_seq_midi
snd_seq                           51567      2 snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_timer                        28931      2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
snd_seq_device               14172       3 snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq
snd                                 62064      11  snd_ca0106,          
 snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_rawj9fe          snd_ca0106,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device
soundcore                       14635       1 snd
snd_page_alloc               14108       2  snd_ca0106,snd_pcm
sp5100_tco                     13495       0
i2c_piix4                          13093       0
radeon                           733693      3
ttm                                  65344       1 radeon
drm_kms_helper              45466       1  radeon
drm                                197692     5  radeon,ttm,drm_kms_helper
i2c_algo_bit                      13199       1 radeon
mac_hid                          13077       0
shpchp                             32325       0
ati_agp                           13242        0
lp                                    17455        0
parport                           40930        3  parport_pc,ppdev,lp
usbhid                            41906        0
hid                                  77367        1 usbhid
8139too                           23283       0  
8139cp                            26759       0
pata_atiixp                        12999       1

Output from "sudo lshw -C network":

*-network                      
     description: Ethernet interface      
     product:  RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+      
     vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co.,  Ltd.      
     physical id: 5      
     bus info:  pci@0000:02:05.0      
     logical name: eth0      
      version: 10
     serial: 00:19:21:b6:af:7c      
     size:  10Mbit/s      
     capacity: 100Mbit/s      
     width: 32  bits      
     clock: 33MHz      
     capabilities: pm  bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 10  0bt-fd autonegotiation  
     configuration: autonegotiation=on  broadcast=yes driver=8139too driverversion=0.9.28 duplex=half latency=64  link=no maxlatency=64 mingnt=32 multicast=yes port=MII speed=10Mbit/s  
      resources: irq:20 ioport:b400(size=256) memory:ff5fdc00-ff5fdcff

Output from "iwlist scan":

lo        Interface  doesn't support scanning.

eth0      Interface doesn't support  scanning.

Output from "lsb_release -d":

Ubuntu  12.04 LTS

Output from "uname -mr":

3.2.0-24-generic-pae  i686

Output from "sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart":

 * Running /etc/init.d/networking restart is  deprecated because it may not enable again some interfaces
 *  Reconfiguring network interfaces...                                  [  OK ]