Comment 1 for bug 108298

please, can anyone more expert than me take a look on this bug report?

i have found i way to avoid the driver lack.
i have a laptop ASUS F5R with Ubuntu 7.04 and i've installed the windows xp drivers of the wired card via ndiswrapper.
in this way the system can recognize the wired card and finally access to the Internet.
curiously the system recognizes the network cards as follow:

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$ifconfig
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
          RX packets:9 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:9 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:620 (620.0 b) TX bytes:620 (620.0 b)

wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1A:92:69:31:5E
          UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
          Interrupt:18 Memory:feac0000-feb00000
$iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 IEEE 802.11b/g ESSID:"" Nickname:"Broadcom 4311"
          Mode:Managed Access Point: Invalid
          RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
          Link Quality=0/100 Signal level=-256 dBm Noise level=-256 dBm
          Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

wlan0 no wireless extensions.
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thanks.

ciao