Comment 12 for bug 103768

Thanks for the guidance Tim.

Note that the internal ipw2100-based card's radio is disabled and the module blacklisted, it shouldn't be interfering.

root@inspiron:~/softmacbug# rmmod zd1211rw
root@inspiron:~/softmacbug# echo > /var/log/syslog
root@inspiron:~/softmacbug# modprobe zd1211rw

I've attached the resulting output after nm-applet gives up the connection attempt (again, no green spheres appeared).