The 1.0.5 image, was using the cutdown config. This is changed, and using the full config now. It would definitely help to provide the dmesg to this bug, as well.

Pointing to forums posts are fine, but the bug tracker is where the magic happens, and it's good to have all the information in one place.

I'll be testing an image shortly, to verify the fixes. I have all of the wifi cards listed that people say they are having issues with (possible exception is the 8188U). The suggestion in one of the forums posts about adding fake-hwclock is a good one, and I'll be adding that to the next test image before release.

I've encountered this issue in both Kali 1.04 and 1.05 and recently overcame it by loading Kali 1.00 and apt-get upgrade/update/dist-upgrade. I don't know how this got broken or how to fix it in future versions, but as a workaround to get network functionality with a variety of popular NICs and modern versions of the pentesting programs, try reloading and upgrading the distro manually.

no need for that, we are going to be pushing the fixed image soon. just waiting on everything to be all caught up.

This is fixed in 1.0.6. Thanks for the report, and apologies for taking so long to get the fix out.