Unreliable NM wifi connection please help

[David Abrahams <dave boost-consulting com>]

A couple weeks ago I posted about the problems I was having with
NetworkManager taking a long time to connect to my WPA network, or
intermittenetly failing to connect altogether, where using
wpa_supplicant directly always connects quickly and reliably.  Dan
Williams and Darren Albers very patiently worked with me through an
installation of NM from CVS to see if that would fix anything.  It
didn't, and then the thread died.

>From googling around for similar problems, I don't think my situation
is unique, and I don't think the problems should be hard to fix
either, for someone who understands wifi protocols (easy for me to
say!), so I'm asking one more time for help diagnosing the cause of
this problem.  

Thanks in advance,

-- 
Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
www.boost-consulting.com