Comment 34 for bug 438454

It seems that this update is not being built for all CPUs. An older version is being installed on my Averatec 3280 laptop -

$ dpkg -s network-manager-gnome
Package: network-manager-gnome
Status: install ok installed
Priority: optional
Section: gnome
Installed-Size: 4736
Maintainer: Ubuntu Core Developers <email address hidden>
Architecture: i386
Source: network-manager-applet
Version: 0.8~a~git.20091014t134532.4033e62-0ubuntu1
Depends: libatk1.0-0 (>= 1.20.0), libc6 (>= 2.4), libcairo2 (>= 1.2.4), libdbus-1-3 (>= 1.0.2), libdbus-glib-1-2 (>= 0.78), libfontconfig1 (>= 2.4.0), libfreetype6 (>= 2.2.1), libgconf2-4 (>= 2.23.2), libglade2-0 (>= 1:2.6.1), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.18.0), libgnome-bluetooth7 (>= 2.27.8), libgnome-keyring0 (>= 2.20.3), libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.16.0), libnm-glib2 (>= 0.8~a~git.20090923t064445.b20cef2), libnm-util1 (>= 0.8~a~git.20090930t162132.866d48b), libnotify1 (>= 0.4.5), libnotify1-gtk2.10, libpango1.0-0 (>= 1.14.0), libxml2 (>= 2.6.27), zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4), gconf2 (>= 2.10.1-2), network-manager (>= 0.8~a~git.20090831t055002), gksu, mobile-broadband-provider-info (>= 20090622)

This version still fails to enable the default route.

Ubuntu version and kernel version
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=9.10
DISTRIB_CODENAME=karmic
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu karmic (development branch)"
Linux cupid 2.6.31-14-generic #48-Ubuntu SMP Fri Oct 16 14:04:26 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux
model name : Mobile AMD Sempron(tm) Processor 2800+

Hopefully, the fixed version will be built for this CPU type.