I do not see this behaviour on my MacBook, with Feisty. The wired connection works and network-manager manages it even if the ndiswrapper is not loaded, is not available, or is blacklisted. What version of Ubuntu are you using ?
-- no interfaces available if ndiswrapper module is not loaded https://launchpad.net/bugs/85526 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
