With the latest version of NetworkManager I now have working fine with my system. The fact that underneath the bonnet I'm running ndiswrapper doesn't seem to bother it at all.
However, there's one configuration parameter that I can't find how to set. Many wireless access points hold more than one WEP key; in order to connect to it a client needs both the key and the index number of the set of keys on the wireless station. Under WinXP the setting for this index is part of the Advanced configuration; but how do I set it on Fedora? There doesn't seem to any such option anywhere - and until I find out how I won't be able to connect to the wireless network at work.
Have no idea how to do it with Network Manager. When configuring things by hand, you would do something like this. In /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ethN (replace ethN with name of your wireless interface), simply list all keys (as hex strings, see man page for iwconfig for supported formats), and specify which one is default key (1, 2, 3 or 4). If some of the keys are unknown to you, you can simply skip it.
KEY1="123" KEY2="456" KEY3="789" KEY4="abc" DEFAULTKEY=n
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