by applying the workaround I get a similar problem

 * Enabling laptop mode...                                                                 *** buffer overflow detected ***: hal-disable-polling terminated
======= Backtrace: =========
/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(__fortify_fail+0x45)[0x2538d5]
/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(+0xe66d7)[0x2526d7]
/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(+0xe6ec7)[0x252ec7]
hal-disable-polling[0x804910d]
/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xf3)[0x185113]
hal-disable-polling[0x8049361]
======= Memory map: ========
00110000-00157000 r-xp 00000000 08:06 932828     /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libdbus-1.so.3.5.7
00157000-00158000 r--p 00046000 08:06 932828     /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libdbus-1.so.3.5.7
00158000-00159000 rw-p 00047000 08:06 932828     /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libdbus-1.so.3.5.7
00159000-0016a000 r-xp 00000000 08:06 420        /usr/lib/libhal.so.1.0.0
0016a000-0016b000 r--p 00010000 08:06 420        /usr/lib/libhal.so.1.0.0
0016b000-0016c000 rw-p 00011000 08:06 420        /usr/lib/libhal.so.1.0.0
0016c000-002e2000 r-xp 00000000 08:06 949460     /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc-2.13.so
002e2000-002e4000 r--p 00176000 08:06 949460     /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc-2.13.so
002e4000-002e5000 rw-p 00178000 08:06 949460     /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc-2.13.so
002e5000-002e8000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 
002e8000-00304000 r-xp 00000000 08:06 920942     /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1
00304000-00305000 r--p 0001b000 08:06 920942     /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1
00305000-00306000 rw-p 0001c000 08:06 920942     /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1
004a3000-0059a000 r-xp 00000000 08:06 932813     /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0.3000.0
0059a000-0059b000 r--p 000f6000 08:06 932813     /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0.3000.0
0059b000-0059c000 rw-p 000f7000 08:06 932813     /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0.3000.0
00619000-00656000 r-xp 00000000 08:06 959037     /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libpcre.so.3.12.1
00656000-00657000 r--p 0003c000 08:06 959037     /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libpcre.so.3.12.1
00657000-00658000 rw-p 0003d000 08:06 959037     /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libpcre.so.3.12.1
00926000-0093d000 r-xp 00000000 08:06 949474     /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libpthread-2.13.so
0093d000-0093e000 r--p 00016000 08:06 949474     /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libpthread-2.13.so
0093e000-0093f000 rw-p 00017000 08:06 949474     /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libpthread-2.13.so
0093f000-00941000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 
00b29000-00b47000 r-xp 00000000 08:06 949457     /lib/i386-linux-gnu/ld-2.13.so
00b47000-00b48000 r--p 0001d000 08:06 949457     /lib/i386-linux-gnu/ld-2.13.so
00b48000-00b49000 rw-p 0001e000 08:06 949457     /lib/i386-linux-gnu/ld-2.13.so
00b84000-00b8b000 r-xp 00000000 08:06 949476     /lib/i386-linux-gnu/librt-2.13.so
00b8b000-00b8c000 r--p 00006000 08:06 949476     /lib/i386-linux-gnu/librt-2.13.so
00b8c000-00b8d000 rw-p 00007000 08:06 949476     /lib/i386-linux-gnu/librt-2.13.so
00dd9000-00dda000 r-xp 00000000 00:00 0          [vdso]
08048000-0804a000 r-xp 00000000 08:06 48707      /usr/bin/hal-disable-polling
0804a000-0804b000 r--p 00001000 08:06 48707      /usr/bin/hal-disable-polling
0804b000-0804c000 rw-p 00002000 08:06 48707      /usr/bin/hal-disable-polling
083d2000-083f3000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0          [heap]
b7797000-b779a000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 
b77b5000-b77b7000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 
bfb2d000-bfb4f000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0          [stack]
Aborted

Error for wireless request "Set Power Management" (8B2C) :
    SET failed on device wlan0 ; Operation not supported.