First impressions of 11.04

[chris]

On Sat, 2011-04-23 at 20:43 -0700, Carl Spitzer wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-04-18 at 02:26 -0400, Fred A. Miller wrote:
> > I have to give credit where credit is due. I took a Dell 64-bit laptop
> > and did a Net. 
> 
> fine you have the money for a new machine.  Ill give it blame where it
> is due my Belkin F5D1070v7 based upon the RTL8185 chip does not work in
> 10.10 10.4.2 or 11.04 beta.
> 
> At least there is hope if a friend can find 10.4.1 in which the card
> worked I might have a system.  Otherwise its back to 8.04.  No amount of
> eye candy is worth a damn if a major function is missing, crippled or
> undetectable.  I tried the driver from realtek site no joy.
> 
> CWSIV
> 
> 

As a matter of interes, have you tried ndiswrapper from the
repositories.  Only useful if your dual booting mind as it uses the
windows drivers.