Description of problem:

NetworkManager can no longer connect to my home wireless network after the
latest kernel update in Fedora 9. Booting with the previous 2.6.25-6-55 kernel
allows NetworkManager to establish a connection with my RaLink wireless card,
while booting with the newer 2.6.25-9-76 kernel does not.

How reproducible:

Always.


Additional info:

lspci -v shows my wireless card as:

04:00.0 Network controller: RaLink RT2561/RT61 802.11g PCI
        Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology GN-WP01GS
        Flags: bus master, slow devsel, latency 64, IRQ 16
        Memory at ff7f8000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=32K]
        Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2
        Kernel driver in use: rt61pci
        Kernel modules: rt61pci

Snips of the relevant sections in /var/log/messages are attached, showing the
difference between booting with the older versus the newer kernel. In short, the
supplicant connection continues changing state with the newer kernel, and the
message

avahi-daemon[1995]: Registering new address record for fe80::216:e6ff:fe3b:10ec
on wlan0.*.

appears instead of

NetworkManager: <info>  (wlan0): supplicant connection state change: 6 -> 7
NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (wlan0/wireless) Stage 2 of 5 (Device
Configure) successful.  Connected to wireless network 'myssid'.

If there are any more diagnostics I can do to help to pinpoint this bug, please ask.