Comment 21 for bug 57146

prism2.5 in this case refers to the Intersil Prism 2.5 chipset which is actually very common in PCMCIA cards. This bug has nothing at all to do with prism2_* (linux-wlan-ng) and everything to do with network-manager not being able to cause a prism 2.5 chipset using the hostap drivers to associate properly even though it worked when dapper was released and doesn't work on edgy now. hostap and wpa-supplicant are also written by the same folks. hostap was the default driver for wpa-supplicant for a long long time.

I have another bug open which has a lot to do with prism2_cs (linux-wlan-ng). You also commented on that bug so I imagine the 3 bugs I'm subscribed to relating to prism2.5 chipsets and their drivers are just getting totally mixed up in everyone's heads. This is completely understandable. I have to be careful to make sure I'm commenting on the right bug myself. No biggie.

I am perplexed though that you say that linux-wlan-ng doesn't support pcmcia cards. You can do a search on packages.ubuntu.com for prism2_cs.ko to see that it did exist in dapper.