Thanks to everyone who figured this bug out. I installed backported
versions of ifupdown and netbase from Intrepid and this specific problem
seems to be solved for me.
However, after having to hunt down the apparent cause of the problem
(useless wlan0 interface being brought up at boot which does actually
work properly after an ifdown/ifup combination but not before) in order
to be able to formulate it in a way that might yield decent search
results, then having to sift through the usual "hit everything with a
hammer" antics on Ubuntu Forums ("sleep 20", inserting "ifdown/ifup" in
random init.d files) before finally striking gold in the form of this
and numerous duplicate bug reports, it is somewhat disappointing that
two years or so pass before anything resembling a fix is pushed out, and
by then no-one is interested in applying it to the "long term support"
release. (It would also have helped had I not needed to strip away layer
upon layer of tools - KNetworkManager and the intrusive/disruptive
avahi-daemon/avahi-autoipd - all to accomplish the probably extremely
common use-case of wanting to automatically connect to one's home
network.)
I know that people are reluctant to update packages in released
distributions in order to avoid breaking functionality, but when the
definition of a "fix" excludes the act of making functionality work that
was broken upon a distribution's release, one has to wonder which
caveats also apply to the definitions of "support", "long term support"
and "update" being used, especially since I started out with the Kubuntu
8.04.2 "update" which was surely released after the fixes issued above.
And suggesting that people just upgrade to the next distribution version
isn't exactly acceptable, even without such things as the KDE 3-to-4
transition which would be involved if I were to chase the fixed
packages, not least because I might well experience breakage elsewhere.
In the end, I'd be running some beta or other, which would hardly be
consistent with the original objective of running a stable, working
distribution.
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wpasupplicant doesn't start when the network start
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/44194
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