KNetworkManager often ignores wireless

[Reinhold Rumberger]

On Saturday 27 February 2010, lanzen wrote:
> On Saturday 27 February 2010 08:59:06 Reinhold Rumberger wrote:
> > Seeing as Wolfgang is asking about NM and not "Battalion:
> > Arena", I don't see the relevance in this case.
> > Also, I doubt that there is a firewall blocking the loopback
> > interface...
> 
> Right! So, what does "reason 2" mean?
> 
> Could it be a hardware problem starting to creep out?

I have no clue what "reason 2" might be. But the OP isn't alone with 
his killswitch problem:
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=69987

As I don't have NM installed, I can't really look through the local 
docu, and there doesn't seem to be much of a mention of it online.
If you have NM installed, you may want to try looking through the NM-
related directories in /usr/share/doc/ and what manpages may be 
available.

  --Reinhold