[clue] seeking wireless troubleshooting advice

[Mike Bean]

I've developed some peculiar symptoms, I'm hoping the collective may have
suggestions to help resolve

I don't seem to be able to connect to my wireless, it simply prompts over
and over for my credentials

dmesg seems clean, but syslog has some peculiar messages:
Jan 26 20:21:20 fozzie kernel: [  946.546994] wl0: wlc_recv: dropping a
frame with invalid src mac address, a2: 00:00:00:00:00:00

my symptoms are completely consistent with:
http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-1704122.html
but I don't have the same build laptop - it's a dell - and I'm not sure I
understand the forum thread well enough to figure out how he somehow
managed to figure out which module was causing the fault

my distro is:

DISTRIB_ID=LinuxMint
DISTRIB_RELEASE=11
DISTRIB_CODENAME=katya
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Linux Mint 11 Katya"

my network is:
bean at fozzie /var/log $ sudo lshw -C network
  *-network
       description: Wireless interface
       product: BCM4313 802.11b/g/n Wireless LAN Controller
       vendor: Broadcom Corporation
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci at 0000:04:00.0
       logical name: wlan0
       version: 01
       serial: 5c:ac:4c:15:72:41
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet
physical wireless
       configuration: broadcast=yes driver=brcm80211
driverversion=2.6.38-8-generic firmware=N/A latency=0 link=no multicast=yes
wireless=IEEE 802.11bgn
       resources: irq:17 memory:f0500000-f0503fff

Any advice is appreciated

Bean
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