Hi,

When a bug is triaged, it enters a list of all the triaged bugs for each
particular package. Developers then work through the list
systematically, based on the importance of the bugs - as you can see
this one is set to Medium (simply because hypothetically you could
access all of the features through ethernet, and Ubuntu still starts).
This means that it isn't at the bottom of the pile, but the ratio of
work to available developer time is still very high, and so
unfortunately this takes time to resolve. It seems highly likely to me
that this is something to do with the hardware identifying itself in a
non-uniform way, specific to this US Robotics model. I'm not a
developer, but this is what it looks like to me. USR probably accomodate
for that in firmware (not drivers) that ship with the device - this is
not provided for linux. I appreciate that doesn't make your internet
work, though.

Given the nature of this, though, there is a chance it will simply begin
to work in the next Ubuntu release, which comes out in October. There
will be a big jump forward towards a more up to date kernel, and with it
lots of new drivers and driver updates. The fact that this is logged on
Launchpad means that developers across many projects can see it, too.
It's possible that the hardware will react differently to the newer
versions.

This will eventually be fixed in Lucid, but might be fixed already in
the next release, Maverick. If you want to test it out, you could find
the testing version on the ubuntu site and give it a go. Just an idea -
but someone will get to this, it's just we're quite short on resources!

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Cannot connect to WPA2 WiFi signals.
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