Okay, I found others on the Seattle Linux List who also had this problem. I'll wait still for others to mark this confirmed, but I do have a stop-gap solution which works:
"Alt-F2, nm-applet gets it back..." (from one John Locke on the Seattle Linux List). Ideally of course this will be counted as a bug and someone will fix it not to go away in the first place. -- Gutsy: wireless access manager that worked has disappeared https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/156900 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs