Just wanted to say I can confirm this. Still happening on my Herd5 Feisty install on a crappy old HP Omnibook 6100.
Possible (untested) solution is to go to System-->Preferences-->Sessions and remove Network Manager from the startup items. This will avoid breaking the ubuntu-desktop package by the removal of network-manager-gnome and will also leave the program available on the computer. Think I'll go and test it now :P
Just wanted to say I can confirm this. Still happening on my Herd5 Feisty install on a crappy old HP Omnibook 6100. ->Preferences- ->Sessions and remove Network Manager from the startup items. This will avoid breaking the ubuntu-desktop package by the removal of network- manager- gnome and will also leave the program available on the computer. Think I'll go and test it now :P
Possible (untested) solution is to go to System-