I can confirm this problem. My atheros wireless card doesn't show up as a network adapter in the feisty herd 3 Live CD.
Ubiquity froze when trying to format the partitions. I had no idea why. ** Changed in: linux-restricted-modules-2.6.20 (Ubuntu) Status: Unconfirmed => Confirmed -- madwifi can't be loaded during the livecd boot (feisty) https://launchpad.net/bugs/83192 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs