Comment 4 for bug 129783

I can confirm this bug report.
Running Kubuntu 7.10 on an IBM Thinkpad R51, which has an Intel 2200BG wireless card, which I noticed is different from the card in the initial report.
Sometimes I'll start my system, KNetworkManager will start fine, ask me for my wallet password and connect to the wireless network properly. I'd say this is more the expection than the norm though.
Usually I have to kill the process and start it up again to work, often more than once. Sometimes I need to kill the kwalletmanager process as well. I'll try to describe all of the different things that happen. I'm not sure which log files are relevant to this but I'd be happy to paste them if necessary.
Sometimes on boot, the process starts up fine but there is no tray icon. Sometimes it prompts me for my wallet password, other times it doesn't. When it prompts me for the password, it connects to the wireless network properly, but there is no tray icon. When it does not prompt, it doesn't connect, and I need to kill the process and start it again to get it do so.
Other times KNetworkManager starts up fine, but halts when prompting for the key from the wallet. Right clicking on the tray icon shows "Waiting for key from wallet". The wallet prompt never appears and I usually need to restart the X Server (ctrl alt backspace) at least once once before it prompts me properly.
Sometimes, after killing the process and starting it up again, the icon shows up as a green globe in the corner instead of the disconnected network icon. In this case, right clicking on the icon shows "no devices configured". No matter how many times I kill the process and start it up again it never starts working. Restarting the X Server doesn't even fix the problem most of the time. At this point I usually restart my computer and hope for the best on the next boot. Again, I have to hope that it works the first time around but I usually have to do a bit of messing around before it starts. Sometimes I have to restart my computer again. The most times I've rebooted in a row to try to get this work is 3 (I believe).
The last problem is that sometimes after I start it up, it's very flaky with the connection. It'll connect fine, then disconnect after a few seconds to a minute. It does this a few times before it connects and stays connected.
It's not a huge problem because once I get it working, it works fine. But since suspend and hibernate don't work properly either, I dread having to turn my computer off when I'm bringing it elsewhere because it means going through all of this.
The different problems seem completely random. There is no indication of which of the different problems is going to happen.
Hopefully this was descriptive enough