Comment 1 for bug 185950

I spent the whole afternoon and I solved the problem.
You included the Zd1201 module BUT NOT the firmware.

I went to

http://sourceforge.net/projects/linux-lc100020/

and I got the firmware as a tar.gz

http://downloads.sourceforge.net/linux-lc100020/zd1201-0.14-fw.tar.gz?modtime=1107218895&big_mirror=0

Next I gunzipped zd1201.fw and I copied in /lib/firmware/2.6.22-14-generic/ working as a root.

cp zd1201.fw /lib/firmware/2.6.22-14-generic/

Finally I extracted and reattached the usb wifi adapter.

and dmesg gives :

[18589.160000] usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 7
[18632.704000] usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 8
[18632.868000] usb 1-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[18633.448000] usb 1-1: wlan0: ZD1201 USB Wireless interface
[18635.540000] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): wlan0: link becomes ready

And now it becomes visible in the network manager