When installing Ubuntu precise on the intel NUCs, via MaaS, you must modify the preseed to install a newer kernel. By default the kernel used is linux-server, which is a meta-package that installs version 3.2.0. In order to change the preseed on a development box, log into your MaaS server and do the following (we will assume that you are using the ubuntu user):

cd ~/maas/contrib/preseed_v2
cp preseed_master preseed_master_amd64_generic_precise
sed -i 's/linux-server/linux-image-3.11.0-19-generic/g' preseed_master_amd64_generic_precise