wpa_supplicant cli works, but NM insists "wireless is disabled"

[Andrew <andrew2006 flight us>]

Hello, 

I have appealed to the Fedora Forum, but no one seems to have a clue there.

Here is the thread:
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=199562

(A quick synopsis of the thread:

I've activated/deactivated everything i could think of, related to NetworkManager; yet, everything wireless is grayed out in the applet.

But wpa_supplicant (cli) works! 

Additional info (beyond above thread):

I compiled the latest NetworkManager svn; still same grayed out behavior.

)

I tried looking in the source and tracing the calls to and from  nm_client_wireless_get_enabled (if that's even a function) but, ignorant of C, didn't get far.

Please help!

tia
andrew