Comment 93 for bug 162671

Florian,

The driver has been in the kernel since 2.6.35 and there is no reason to remove it.

It was broken around 2.6.37 for i386 users.

So Maverick on i386 always worked.

Natty(2.6.38) is broken.

Oneiric(3.0) was broken and now fixed on i386 and x86_64 updated the latest stable kernel. Although you can't do a fresh install on 64 from an old ISO.

Precise and Quantal(3.2/3.5) the kernel driver is deliberately not built on Ubuntu.

Raring(3.8) the driver is built.

As the driver is in staging it is not maintained by linux wireless.

So breaks could happen again, but all the critial bugs have been fixed.

However, I will keep an eye on it.