Comment 11 for bug 132473

No, the wireless interface isn't configured in /etc/network/interfaces, if i do that, and use wpa_supplicant directly works flawlessly, and of course being configured that way the wireless interface isn't visible to network-manager

currently the interfaces file contain the following related to the wireless card:

auto ath0
iface ath0 inet dhcp
# name Atheros Wireless card
# wpa-ssid Mordor
# wpa-driver madwifi
# wpa-conf /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf

but i try even without any reference to this card included in this file.

I think the problem could be for example how network-manager load the key file which require a password to be load, maybe the file is loaded before the key file's password is asked to gnome-keyring, i don't know this is just an hypothesis without any foundation.