Comment 6 for bug 75423

I'd like to bump this since it still seems unresolved. I was helping a user yesterday in the forums who couldn't get a SOHOware ND5120 PCMCIA ethernet card working because of the missing NE2K.cis file. I had to download the pcmcia-cs package for Dapper from http://packages.ubuntu.com, pull NE2k.cis out of it and upload it to the user (see this post http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=6643210&postcount=49 for details). It took me a long time to figure out how to do that (it was fmyhr's post above that finally led to the answer), and I doubt that many new Ubuntu users would have any idea what to do.

NE2K.cis (and all other firmware) seems to no longer be included in the pcmcia-cs package for Intrepid. Is there a reason for this? PCMCIA devices are still widely used and Ubuntu would do a better job of working out-of-the-box if this firmware could be more easily installed.