This bothers me too, so I sat down this morning and made an ugly hack that causes wlassistant to ignore the message about pid files. Anyway, afterwards I was able to connect to networks. I'm not really sure how to make patches, so if I did it wrong, oops.
** Attachment added: "patch to src/wlassistant.cpp" http://librarian.launchpad.net/5039033/wlassistant.cpp.patch -- wireless assisant does not connect in edgy https://launchpad.net/bugs/64841 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs