I have experienced the same problem on Edgy Knot-3. And you are right about this bug when it runs with ipw2200. I have downloaded latest cvs NetworkManager and run it but still experienced the same bug, it seems to me more like bugs of NetworkManager rather than bug of Ubuntu.
$sudo /usr/sbin/NetworkManager --no-daemon NetworkManager: <information> starting... NetworkManager: <WARNING> nm_dbus_init (): nm_dbus_init() could not acquire the NetworkManager service as it is already taken (ret=3). Is the daemon already running? NetworkManager: <ERROR> [1158570946.044629] main (): nm_dbus_init() failed, exiting. Either dbus is not running, or the NetworkManager dbus security policy was not loaded. NetworkManager: traceback: NetworkManager: /usr/sbin/NetworkManager(main+0x779) [0x8069569] NetworkManager: /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xdc) [0xb7c5d8cc] NetworkManager: /usr/sbin/NetworkManager [0x8053ce1] Trace/breakpoint trap (core dumped) This is the result when i ran with gdb $sudo gdb /usr/sbin/NetworkManager GNU gdb 6.4.90-debian Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions. Type "show copying" to see the conditions. There is absolutely no warranty for GDB. Type "show warranty" for details. This GDB was configured as "i486-linux-gnu"...Using host libthread_db library "/lib/tls/i686/cmov/libthread_db.so.1". (gdb) r --no-daemon Starting program: /usr/sbin/NetworkManager --no-daemon [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled] [New Thread -1211774672 (LWP 8055)] NetworkManager: <information> starting... NetworkManager: <WARNING> nm_dbus_init (): nm_dbus_init() could not acquire the NetworkManager service as it is already taken (ret=3). Is the daemon already running? NetworkManager: <ERROR> [1158571329.050569] main (): nm_dbus_init() failed, exiting. Either dbus is not running, or the NetworkManager dbus security policy was not loaded. NetworkManager: traceback: NetworkManager: /usr/sbin/NetworkManager(main+0x779) [0x8069569] NetworkManager: /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xdc) [0xb7cd38cc] NetworkManager: /usr/sbin/NetworkManager [0x8053ce1] Program received signal SIGTRAP, Trace/breakpoint trap. [Switching to Thread -1211774672 (LWP 8055)] main (argc=Cannot access memory at address 0x3 ) at NetworkManager.c:765 765 exit (EXIT_FAILURE); -- network-manager does not detect ipw2200 https://launchpad.net/bugs/60679 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs