Michael As soon as you mentioned versions of udev I realised what the problem might be. Aptitude was holding back upgrading udev because I still had CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED compiled into the kernel. So I recompiled the kernel with this disabled and NetworkManager now works.
Many thanks for your help. John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org