Comment 38 for bug 330811

The supposed workaround "remove plasma applet and start knetworkmanager" does not work for me. Knetworkmanager worked for me in 8.10, doesn't in 9.04. Neither does the above "iwconfig wlan0 essid..." work for me.

Releasing Kubuntu with such a serious bug is truly surprising. The low priority assigned to it is disheartening. Time to look for a different Linux distribution, I suppose...