NetworkManager borks at my wlan card...

I am using a laptop where i have one wired ethernet interface (eth0), and an adm8211 cardbus WLAN interface (eth1) - which is correctly set up by kudzu as a wlan interface. It all works - as long as i disable NetworkManager (netplugd works)... If i start the NetworkManager service, the whole computer seems to freeze about one secound, and then its fine for about a secound... Something which makes the laptop unusable. "top" shows "NetworkManager" running with 50% CPU. Hmm.. I smell a bug... I also can't find any way to start that nifty little tray applet... Kyrre