Comment 11 for bug 211135

Same thing here for me on a Lenovo R61, though I've been restarting hal to get it back (/etc/init.d/hal restart). It worked when I first upgraded to Hardy, but broke last week sometime. Within a few seconds of restarting hal, nm-applet finds my wireless network and automatically connects to it.

This is with an Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection (rev 02)