I suppose we're back to the "backports" again.

At this URL:

<unsharptech.com/.../\
>

is this comment about 1/3 down:

" Are you sure you have all the Ubuntu repositories enabled in
" Software Sources and your package lists are up to date? I just ran
" that particular command as well and found the package
" "linux-backports-modules-intrepid-generic" no problem.
"
" If you still have trouble, the package is available through the
" Ubuntu Package Search online at:
"
<packages.ubuntu.com/.../...modules-...-generic>


Going to the above URL, there are 3 sections:

1. Backported drivers for generic kernel image.
It's an empty package, more of a placeholder than anything else.

2. Other Packages Related to linux-backports-modules-intrepid-generic

3. Download linux-backports-modules-intrepid-generic

THIS IS THE ONE YOU WANT. Look at the table in that section; there are
4 columns: Architecture, Package Size, Installed Size, and Files.

In the Architecture column, click on either "amd64" or "i386".

After clicking on "i386", you go to a new page listing mirrors from
which you'll download a *.deb file -- it's a really long filename:

linux-backports-modules-intrepid-generic_2.6.27.7.11_i386.deb

so for this example assume the name is just "backport.deb"

To install it from a command line:

sudo dpkg -i backport.deb # substituting the real name for backport

The docs and forum messages claim this is all that's needed to fix
the problem. I have no way to test it (no wireless here), so we're
going to have to work on faith.