Thanks. This initally was a licensing issue, Ubuntu had to split the firmware
into a seperate package that's not being installed by default.
I believe there's some functionality in update-notifier that's supposed to
notify the user when a device requires non-free firmware (and offer to manually
install it). But that didn't happen in my case (with a similar device that
requires the same firmware, on a Natty system).
** Package changed: linux (Ubuntu) => linux-firmware-nonfree (Ubuntu)
** Summary changed:
- Belkin USB adaptor is recognised under lsusb but not in iwconfig
+ Missing notification when a device driver requires linux-firmware-nonfree
** Also affects: update-notifier (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Missing notification when a device driver requires linux-firmware-
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