@David The problem with your machine is that the drivers for Intel ipw2x00 cards don't have support for kill switches yet. You can see this by looking at the file RfKill.txt attached to comment #26. You'll only see Bluetooth kill switches present. Network Manager relies on kill switches to know the state of the device. Since they aren't present, it cannot properly monitor the state, which results in the current behavior you're seeing.
NM upstream has added a workaround for these drivers which has been committed in the upstream network-manager source. We're working on getting this released as an SRU for Karmic, but in the meanwhile, could you try the version from the NM trunk PPA: https://launchpad.net/~network-manager/+archive/trunk ** Changed in: network-manager (Ubuntu) Status: New => Fix Committed ** Summary changed: - NM is not aware about wireless radio power status + NM is not aware of Wi-Fi ( ipw2x00 ) power state -- NM is not aware of Wi-Fi ( ipw2x00 ) power state https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/485404 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
