I absolutely agree that this should be marked high priority. The prism2_ drivers don't even begin to support the wireless extensions and won't work at all out-of-the-box for most users. The hostap driver has long been regarded as the best driver for the prism 2 series chipsets and it's the only one that should be working with network-manager / wpa- supplicant (though it's not at the moment on Ubuntu - there's a bug on that somewhere).
The default driver for prism2 cards should be hostap. -- [Edgy regression] Hostap driver for PRISM2 wifi card not working any more https://launchpad.net/bugs/62685 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
