It's a different diagnosis with those packages. The nm-applet spins for about a minute, before displaying the exclamation mark notification and no network. At that point, I can click on the applet, choose the wireless network it should have been connecting to, and it will connect in a few seconds.
The second part is fine, the minute or so of pointless spinning is not. ** Changed in: network-manager (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => New -- [ralink] NetworkManager takes far too long to get a wireless connection on login https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/150968 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