Hi,
This is just a guess, but according to this mailing list post: 
http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0903.0/00005.html
the firmware files downloaded from gitweb are getting corrupted due to a bug in 
gitweb.

"The correct agere_sta_fw.bin is 65046 bytes long. The corrupted 
agere_sta_fw.bin is 89729 bytes long.
There is a way to recode the original binary with GNU recode: recode 
utf8..iso8859-1 agere_sta_fw.bin"

I tried downloading that firmware, fixing it with recode, and placing it
in /lib/firmware on my jaunty alpha 5 installation with a lucent/orinoco
silver card. It seems to have worked - dmesg now reports that the card
can do WPA, but I haven't had a chance to test the WPA yet.

On another note, if this works, it would be nice if there was an ubuntu
package with it. It takes some hunting to figure out that you have to
download the firmware yourself :)

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Kernel oops loading Agere firmware (orinoco module)
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/315489
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