Same for me, with edgy my WiFi connection to a router was auto enabled at startup, which permitted me to do connection sharing to another PC. Even more, in feisty knetworkmanager seems unable to initiate dhclient when i try to connect it to this network (which is BTW unencrypted).
my etc/network/interfaces : auto lo iface lo inet loopback address 127.0.0.1 netmask 255.0.0.0 auto eth0 iface eth0 inet static address 10.0.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 auto eth1 iface eth1 inet dhcp auto eth2 iface eth2 inet dhcp auto ath0 iface ath0 inet dhcp auto wlan0 iface wlan0 inet dhcp iface rausb1 inet dhcp wireless-essid NETGEAR auto rausb1 -- dhcp not working automatically in feisty https://launchpad.net/bugs/94071 -- kubuntu-bugs mailing list kubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-bugs