I am trying to connect my desktop to a wireless network. I have purchased an ASUS USB-N13 B1 adapter. I have followed instructions for installing drivers and disabling conflicting drivers. I have thoroughly searched and could not find a solution. The adapter is recognized and powered on. I have entered the ssid and password information into the wireless network configuration. Other machines can connect to this wireless network, and the machine can connect online via ethernet without issue. Here is the output of some commands which summarize my configuration, and might give some clues :

~$ cat /etc/lsb-release
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=12.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=precise
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS"

~$ uname -a                                                                               
Linux petra 3.2.0-29-generic #46-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jul 27 17:03:23 UTC 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

~$ lsusb                                                
Bus 001 Device 006: ID 0b05:17ab ASUSTek Computer, Inc.

~$ dmesg
[ 1883.823150] wlan0: authenticate with 48:5b:39:e7:25:5e (try 1)
[ 1884.020027] wlan0: authenticate with 48:5b:39:e7:25:5e (try 2)
[ 1884.220025] wlan0: authenticate with 48:5b:39:e7:25:5e (try 3)
[ 1884.420023] wlan0: authentication with 48:5b:39:e7:25:5e timed out

Any assistance would be appreciated as I have been trying to get this machine online for several weeks now to no avail.

Sincerely, Michael.