Comment 23 for bug 555571

Same thing happened to me running 10.04 on an Asus UL30. Took me forever to find this fix (most forums had me changing .conf files etc). The fix described above by changing (or just removing) the state variable works.

This is NOT a copy of bug #524454. You cannot right click on network manager and the only fix that worked for me (after trying dozens of things from dozens of forums) was the state variable trick. Network manager just says "unmanaged" and there is no option to click anywhere.