Comment 11 for bug 141233

I seem to hae spoken too soon.

Before going further I'll point out that I'm using a bcm4318 card and the wireless-dev kernel tree in order to get a working driver for it. However, my friend sees the exact same issue using an Atheros card so I don't think that's the problem.

I have two ESSIDs, one WPA, one unencrypted. If I just boot the laptop with the card plugged in, I end up on the unencrypted network. If I try to switch to the encrypted one, I can't connect. Commonly network-manager would then die. Initially I presumed this issue was with the driver, so I reported it here with syslog, etc:

https://lists.berlios.de/pipermail/bcm43xx-dev/2007-September/thread.html#5900

I have now tried the ubuntu13-i386 version of network-manager, downloading it by hand from the pool on archive.ubuntu.com. I got the same result as before, except that network-manager seemed somewhat more robust and didn't crash, the applet stayed working, showing it attempting to join the network. Some fiddling later (sorry I can't exactly describe what I did, but mainly trying to switch networks with the applet and iwconfig), network-manager crashed again with a similar error (I'll attach it in a moment).