Similar crash on a Centrino laptop (ipw2200 driver).
I have to commented out the line setting iface eth1 in /etc/network/interfaces to get NetworkManager working.

Without commenting out I got this debug messages:

sudo NetworkManager --no-daemon
NetworkManager: <information>   starting...
NetworkManager: <WARNING>        main (): nm_data_new: Setting up dbus filter
NetworkManager: <information>   eth0: Device is fully-supported using driver 'e100'.
NetworkManager: <information>   nm_device_init(): waiting for device's worker thread to start
NetworkManager: <information>   nm_device_init(): device's worker thread started, continuing.
NetworkManager: <information>   Now managing wired Ethernet (802.3) device 'eth0'.
NetworkManager: <information>   eth1: Device is fully-supported using driver 'ipw2200'.
NetworkManager: <information>   nm_device_init(): waiting for device's worker thread to start
NetworkManager: <information>   nm_device_init(): device's worker thread started, continuing.
NetworkManager: <information>   Now managing wireless (802.11) device 'eth1'.
NetworkManager: <information>   Updating allowed wireless network lists.
NetworkManager: <WARNING>        nm_dbus_get_networks_cb (): nm-dbus-nmi.c:522 (nm_dbus_get_networks_cb): error received: org.freedesktop.NetworkManagerInfo.NoNetworks - org.freedesktop.NetworkManagerInfo.NoNetworks.
NetworkManager: <WARNING>        nm_signal_handler (): Caught signal 2, shutting down normally.
NetworkManager: <information>   Caught terminiation signal
NetworkManager: <debug info>    [1146763008.632036] nm_print_open_socks (): Open Sockets List:
NetworkManager: <debug info>    [1146763008.632711] nm_print_open_socks (): Open Sockets List Done.
NetworkManager: <information>   Deactivating device eth0.
NetworkManager: <information>   Deactivating device eth1.
user@uber:~$ sudo vim /etc/network/interfaces
user@uber:~$ sudo NetworkManager --no-daemon
NetworkManager: <information>   starting...
NetworkManager: <WARNING>        main (): nm_data_new: Setting up dbus filter
NetworkManager: <information>   eth0: Device is fully-supported using driver 'e100'.
NetworkManager: <information>   nm_device_init(): waiting for device's worker thread to start
NetworkManager: <information>   nm_device_init(): device's worker thread started, continuing.
NetworkManager: <information>   Now managing wired Ethernet (802.3) device 'eth0'.
NetworkManager: <WARNING>        nm_signal_handler (): Caught signal 11.  Generating backtrace...
NetworkManager: ******************* START **********************************
NetworkManager: Frame 0: NetworkManager [0x806ac48]
NetworkManager: Frame 1: NetworkManager [0x806adf5]
NetworkManager: Frame 2: [0xffffe420]
NetworkManager: Frame 3: NetworkManager [0x8059a3b]
NetworkManager: Frame 4: /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0(g_object_unref+0xc5) [0xb7cbceac]
NetworkManager: Frame 5: NetworkManager(nm_device_new+0x415) [0x8055e50]
NetworkManager: Frame 6: NetworkManager(nm_create_device_and_add_to_list+0xb8) [0x806589a]
NetworkManager: Frame 7: NetworkManager(nm_add_initial_devices+0xea) [0x8065ecf]
NetworkManager: Frame 8: NetworkManager(nm_hal_init+0xef) [0x806654e]
NetworkManager: Frame 9: NetworkManager(main+0x875) [0x80672da]
NetworkManager: Frame 10: /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xd2) [0xb7cfdea2]
NetworkManager: Frame 11: NetworkManager [0x8052d91]
NetworkManager: ******************* END **********************************