Mint 15 Stopped connecting to new wireless networks [on hold]

Mint 15 Stopped connecting to new wireless networks [on hold]

I know this is Ubuntu forums, but I'm not receiving any answers from the
Mint community... I am a fresh migrant from Ubuntu 12.04 to Mint 15, and I
am having a wifi problem. I have two saved networks that I connected to
within the first couple of days of having mint, but upon trying to connect
to new networks in the following days, I'm having problems. In the network
manager screen, I can click on a network all day, but it never brings up
the password prompt or anything. On the network I'm on right now, I can go
to details, then when I click settings it says "error initializing editor:
insufficient privileges." This tells me I probably chmod'd something along
the way that no longer allows me to edit my wireless networks. I have
internet on the two that are saved, and I can connect to wired networks no
problem. I'm at a loss here and have found no similar problems on google.
Here is the output of mintwifi:
[code]* I. scanning WIFI PCI devices...
-- Atheros Communications Inc. AR928X Wireless Network Adapter
(PCI-Express) (rev 01)
==> PCI ID = 168c:002a (rev 01)
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* II. querying ndiswrapper...
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* III. querying iwconfig...
eth0 no wireless extensions.
lo no wireless extensions.
wlan0 IEEE 802.11abgn ESSID:"java"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.437 GHz Access Point: 00:18:39:4A:2A:54
Bit Rate=54 Mb/s Tx-Power=16 dBm
Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Power Management:on
Link Quality=70/70 Signal level=-35 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:4 Invalid misc:283 Missed beacon:0
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* IV. querying ifconfig...
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr c8:0a:a9:84:af:71
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)
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:65536 Metric:1
RX packets:1210 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1210 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:253047 (253.0 KB) TX bytes:253047 (253.0 KB)
wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 70:f1:a1:7f:92:85
inet addr:192.168.1.107 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::72f1:a1ff:fe7f:9285/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:13482 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:12584 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:12190123 (12.1 MB) TX bytes:2188578 (2.1 MB)
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* V. querying DHCP...
[sudo] password for hollis:
Rather than invoking init scripts through /etc/init.d, use the service(8)
utility, e.g. service smbd reload
/etc/init.d/smbd: 58: /etc/init.d/smbd: awk: not found
Since the script you are attempting to invoke has been converted to an
Upstart job, you may also use the reload(8) utility, e.g. reload smbd
RTNETLINK answers: File exists
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* VI. querying nslookup google.com...
Server: 138.47.18.130
Address: 138.47.18.130#53
Non-authoritative answer:
Name: google.com
Address: 173.227.93.123
Name: google.com
Address: 173.227.93.84
Name: google.com
Address: 173.227.93.88
Name: google.com
Address: 173.227.93.89
Name: google.com
Address: 173.227.93.93
Name: google.com
Address: 173.227.93.94
Name: google.com
Address: 173.227.93.98
Name: google.com
Address: 173.227.93.99
Name: google.com
Address: 173.227.93.103
Name: google.com
Address: 173.227.93.104
Name: google.com
Address: 173.227.93.108
Name: google.com
Address: 173.227.93.109
Name: google.com
Address: 173.227.93.113
Name: google.com
Address: 173.227.93.114
Name: google.com
Address: 173.227.93.118
Name: google.com
Address: 173.227.93.119[/code]
I don't know if that does any good since I'm connected to java, but it's
there. Thanks for any help!