Comment 10 for bug 264104

I just started seeing this after upgrading intrepid packages from the last few days. After login, network-manager tries to connect to my WPA2 network. I can get things to work again if I uncheck 'Enable wireless' in network-manager, and then do 'rmmod ipw2200'. It takes a few seconds to be removed. Then I can 'modprobe ipw2200' and check 'Enable wireless' and everything is fine.

As a stab in the dark, I looked for updates that jumped out at me from the last seven days (find /var/cache/apt/archives -mtime -7):
/var/cache/apt/archives/acpid_1.0.6-9ubuntu4_i386.deb
/var/cache/apt/archives/acpi-support_0.112_i386.deb
/var/cache/apt/archives/hal_0.5.11-3~ubuntu9_i386.deb
/var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.8~20080505-0ubuntu7_i386.deb
/var/cache/apt/archives/network-manager_0.7~~svn20080908t183521+eni0-0ubuntu4_i386.deb
/var/cache/apt/archives/upstart_0.3.9-8_i386.deb

$ dmesg | grep ipw2200
[ 22.398699] ipw2200: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200/2915 Network Driver, 1.2.2kmprq
[ 22.398703] ipw2200: Copyright(c) 2003-2006 Intel Corporation
[ 22.398790] ipw2200 0000:02:02.0: PCI INT A -> Link[LNKC] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
[ 22.437643] ipw2200: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection
[ 22.437696] firmware: requesting ipw2200-bss.fw
[ 24.064139] ipw2200: Detected geography ZZM (11 802.11bg channels, 0 802.11a channels)
[ 63.882779] ipw2200: Failed to send SYSTEM_CONFIG: Already sending a command.
[ 64.818557] ipw2200: Failed to send SYSTEM_CONFIG: Already sending a command.
[ 65.099348] ipw2200: Failed to send SYSTEM_CONFIG: Already sending a command.
[ 70.564266] ipw2200: Failed to send ASSOCIATE: Already sending a command.
[ 189.567881] ipw2200: Firmware error detected. Restarting.
[ 189.569852] ipw2200: Failed to up device
[ 189.852190] ipw2200 0000:02:02.0: PCI INT A disabled