Comment 19 for bug 59983

Have another fix for everybody thanks to the network manager mailing list now we can have working network manager! You must first make sure you have working ndiswrapper-1.8 as I posted above

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
sudo apt-get build-dep network-manager
sudo apt-get install cvs
sudo apt-get remove network-manager
cvs -d :pserver:<email address hidden>:/cvs/gnome login #press <enter>
cvs -d :pserver:<email address hidden>:/cvs/gnome co NetworkManager
cd NetworkManager
./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var
make
sudo make install

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# Optional: Plugins
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cd vpn-daemons/vpnc
./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var
make
sudo make install
cd ../openvpn
./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var
make
sudo make install
cd ../pptp
./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var
make
sudo make install

sudo gtk-update-icon-cache -f /usr/share/icons/hicolor

Add nm-applet --sm-disable to Sessions > Startup Programs