Now network-manager refuses to start up. This started happening after the latest kernel update, but could be a case of post hoc reasoning.
According to strace output (which I'll attach), it constantly polls some file descriptor (14, in this case), which always returns "EAGAIN". -- rt2500 wireless adapter unable to obtain IP address https://launchpad.net/bugs/49392 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs