Shortly after I upgraded I noticed I was getting kicked off my wireless network fairly frequently(i.e. more often than never)
I looked around a few forum threads that google lead me to, but where there were proposed solutions, they didn't work.
I figured it might be an issue with the Atheros drivers included in the new kernel(I saw it downloading 3.8 in the distribution upgrade dialogue).
I rebooted and from the grub menu, I selected "Ubuntu with advanced options" and saw that I could choose to boot with the 3.5 kernel.
I booted with the 3.5 kernel and my problem was solved. I'm now going to use synaptic to uninstall the 3.8 kernel but keep the 3.5 kernel and try rebooting. With any luck I wont bork my laptop and I can get back to my software engineering homework.
UPDATE: Synaptic complained when I tried to uninstall the 3.8 kernel image. Attempting to make grub use the 3.5 kernel by default instead of 3.8. Standby
UPDATE2: Followed the advice here to make grub use the older kernel version by default. This works, but I see this more as a temporary patch than a permanent solution.
Hopefully people googling the same problem I had will find this thread and solve their problem too.
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