On my Thinkpad T61p 6457-7WU, booting with the kill switch enabled (radios disabled) and then enabling the radios, it works fine. Attached, as a data point, is a log of udevadm monitor --env, and you can see what notices are sent to which NM reacted.
** Attachment added: "udev log after booting with radios off and enabling them (T61p)" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/33239401/rfkill-64577WU-working.log -- [karmic][iwlagn] MASTER "wireless disabled" for some IWL 4965 5100 and 5300 devices https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/441161 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs