Wireless and Network Manager

OK, so Network Manager works fine. But it does not solve my wireless problem - if I boot up with my wireless switch off, there is nothing I can do to turn it on. modprobe ipw2100 does not seem to help. Going into yast, fiddling with settings so that it re-runs all the scripts helps, but that is a hassle. I wonder if this is because I was forced to disable that hotkey-setup module? More investigation to do, I guess.