Comment 4 for bug 76843

It happens on Edgy.

I'm not sure what causes it, by the way in the meantime I did find a sort of 'workaround' by using the MAC selector for the ethernet card, and the driver selector for the wireless card; e.g. this is how /etc/iftab looks now:

# This file assigns persistent names to network interfaces.
# See iftab(5) for syntax.

eth0 mac 00:14:22:f3:87:d9 arp 1
wlan0 driver ipw2200

I noticed that if I tried using the driver for the ethernet card as well (tg3 driver) it was problematic. This seems the only working combo, even though I don't know why.