Comment 15 for bug 1011073

I've encountered this problem as well with Ubuntu 12.04 (Precise Pangolin)/Linux Mint 13 (maya), i386 non-PAE on a Panasonic Toughbook CF-51 with an Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG [Calexico2].

At boot Network Manager doesn't show anything but iwlist does show wireless networks available. After several minutes, Network Manager starts functioning, showing the available networks. I've monitored the logs (.xsession-errors, syslog, dmesg, kern.log, auth.log, udev.log) but nothing appears at the moment it starts functioning.

The following bugs appear to be duplicates of this but I don't have time to verify them:
bug 1032664
bug 1031777
bug 1017186
bug 996389
bug 991872
bug 983583
bug 965895

Bug 767423 seems to be an even older report of the same problem.