Comment 71 for bug 572777

I have to agree with Warwick. This is a show stopper as it means you can't run Ubuntu on the particular hardware. In my situation I have an Intel 855GME. Wireless works fine on OpenSuse 11.3 (my work around). Forgive my limited understanding but I thought the different vendors shared the same kernel and drivers? Considering that the problem appears to be limited to specific wireless hardware, the hardware in question is Intel (who I believe are great open source contributors?) and other Linux vendors (OpenSuse) don't exhibit the same problem with the same hardware, it's difficult for me as a niave user to understand why the problem persists. AND this is a LTS release. Surely this problem warrants a high severity?