Comment 52 for bug 75681

I doubt that this is the ideal place to say this, but in case anyone else goes down this path, getting my wireless working again involved copying /lib/udev/firmware-helper from the old feisty udev package to the same location once the new udev from debian unstable is installed. Apparently the debian udev package does not include this file. This goes to show that ubuntu's udev package is indeed very tricked out. ;-)