I had this problem as well. Though from my experience is that it is on the panel. It's more a case of the icon which should be showing, isn't loading up. So you are left with an invisible area of a couple of pixels wide which I could click. (Only noticeable by a slightly bigger gap than between other icons)
When I clicked the invisible bit and started wireless the icon then appeared as wireless and after stopping it, it showed the usual image. -- Network Manager 0.7 applet not Appearing if there are managed entries in /etc/network/interfaces https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/289466 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs