This patch has not been backported by the upstream maintainers for earlier kernels, and does not meet the Ubuntu SRU guidelines: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelTeam/KernelUpdates
Since the use of pci=use_crs appears to be a valid workaround, I'm setting this to wontfix for Karmic and Lucid. Here is an explanation of pci=use_crs: http://lwn.net/Articles/373551/ ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Status: Triaged => Won't Fix -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/404596 Title: failed to allocate wireless device -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs