BCM4312/b43 acts weird with NetworkManager and F13

[Ville-Pekka Vainio <vpivaini cs helsinki fi>]

Hi,

I'm running Fedora 13 with NetworkManager-0.8.1-1 and a 2.6.34 kernel from
koji. My system has a BCM4312 wifi chip which I'm using with the b43 module
and the proprietary firmware from Broadcom.

NetworkManager is acting a bit weird with wifi. Every time I reboot the
laptop, the wireless connection is disabled, meaning I have to right click
on the nm-applet icon and choose "Enable wireless". Based on
/var/log/messages the firmware is loaded to the device at this point like
this:

NetworkManager[968]: <info> (wlan0): bringing up device.
kernel: b43-phy0: Loading firmware version 478.104 (2008-07-01 00:50:23)
kernel: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
dbus-daemon: [system] Rejected send message, 1 matched rules;
type="method_return", sender=":1.1" (uid=0 pid=968 comm="NetworkManager)
interface="(unset)" member="(unset)" error name="(unset)" requested_reply=0
destination=":1.56" (uid=500 pid=1563 comm="nm-applet))
NetworkManager[968]: <info> (wlan0): supplicant interface state:  starting
-> ready
NetworkManager[968]: <info> (wlan0): device state change: 2 -> 3 (reason
42)
NetworkManager[968]: <info> Activation (wlan0) starting connection 'Auto
<network name here>'

etc. etc.

With my previous laptop, which had an Intel wifi chip, the wireless network
was always automatically enabled when I booted up the computer. I know the
b43 drivers are still under development, but does anyone have an idea what
could be going wrong? The dbus error does look a bit scary to me. 

-- 
Ville-Pekka Vainio