Comment 51 for bug 548992

Tried uninstalling network-manager and instead installed wicd, with exactly the same results; connection is sometimes established but doesn't stay up more than at most a couple of minutes, usually seconds. This goes for both the encrypted eduroam and the open web-login network that's available.

Simply put, to me, this seems like the issue lies deeper than network-manager or wicd.

Currently writing this on winxp on the very same network, yet again confirming that network & hardware are not the issue.