All this sounds familiar. I have an Acer laptop with intel wireless too. But the Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 2200BG on my Vaio does somewhat the same thing. It seems as if nm-applet is connecting but it never gets an IP and is unable to talk to the WLAN if I assign one manually.
On my Vaio this is after resuming from hibernation. On the Acer after resuming from either suspend or hibernation. -- Wireless not working after suspend (S3) with ipw2100 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/115743 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs