For the past few days it seems to have worked just fine on all public WLANs I've tried. So 0.1-0ubuntu9 doesn't seem to do that.
(Maybe it happens when a given SSID switched from WPA to unencrypted?) -- Crashes when trying to access UNENCRYPTED WLAN https://launchpad.net/bugs/91881 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs