Comment 13 for bug 139171

One more data point. I've re-installed gutsy tribe 5 from scratch. After applying all updates, I was still unable to connect to my network after several tries. I then re-enabled broadcast of the ssid and then was able to connect to the network, but not until after rebooting, since NetworkManager had crashed. (I had tried both broadcast and w/o after the original update and neither made a difference).

Here's the situation now: if the ssid is broadcast, the machine connects to network just fine after logging in. if the ssid is /not/ broadcast, then NM prompts me for the WPA passphrase, and then connects to the network. I don't understand why NM doesn't automatically connect to the network when the ssid isn't being broadcasted. In the no-broadcast case, NM still correctly identifies the ssid.