Comment 3 for bug 204584

Same here, although I had the same problem back in 7.04 and 7.10. I just used the original debian package and it worked, at least until 8.04.

Using GNOME with kde libs. My card is an Intel ip2200 in a HP nx6110 notebook.

KDE's trace:

[...]
(no debugging symbols found)
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
[New Thread 0xb68bc6c0 (LWP 14337)]
[New Thread 0xb64ceb90 (LWP 14376)]
(no debugging symbols found)

[...]

(no debugging symbols found)
(no debugging symbols found)
0xb7fa9410 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
#0 0xb7fa9410 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
#1 0xb6b9999b in read () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libpthread.so.0
#2 0xb68cd1d3 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libxcb.so.1
#3 0x00000003 in ?? ()
#4 0x080c795c in ?? ()
#5 0x00001000 in ?? ()
#6 0xb68db8bc in ?? () from /usr/lib/libxcb.so.1
#7 0x080c78c8 in ?? ()
#8 0x080c78c8 in ?? ()
#9 0xbfdbf318 in ?? ()
#10 0x080c795c in ?? ()
#11 0x080c78d4 in ?? ()
#12 0x00000000 in ?? ()

and the lines from the terminal (swscanner was run as root with sudo)

(...)
if(eth1)->192.168.0.103/255.255.255.0/192.168.0.255#### level: -43 noise: -81 (86)
Starting a new scan thread!!
eth1 Scan completed :
New AP found(01): 00:17:9A:F8:00:F9
KCrash: Application 'swscanner' crashing...
X Error: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter) 3
  Major opcode: 7
  Minor opcode: 0
  Resource id: 0x4400102
Error: "/tmp/kde-orzeu" is owned by uid 1000 instead of uid 0.

(...)