On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 12:21 AM, Brian Wood <woodbrian77 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Periodically when I start a laptop with Ubuntu 14.04 on it
> there aren't any access points to select from when I click
> on the wifi/networking icon.  The only way I've been able
> to work around that is to reboot the system.

What is the wireless driver and chipset?  I've seen an issue very
similar to this on a certain Intel wireless chip.  I never resolved
it, but I narrowed it down to a problem with the linux driver for that
particular chipset.

Brian