Exasperated, exhausted and highly irritated, I hoarsely whisper a rhetorical question toward my monitors with acid dripping from my fangs:
Why does my wireless Card work on Edgy but not on Feisty?!
(oh! …and every other word was an F* word)
After doing some idle research, I found that according to a bug report in the ubuntu launchpad, the r818x linux driver that is used and works well in the 2.6.17 kernel causes kernel 2.6.20 to crash!
As a result of this, the r818x and r8187 drvers have been blacklisted (well in Feisty which uses kernel 2.6.20 anyway) – see your own /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.
Unfortunately, this leaves newbies who have bought into the “open source just-works” marketing bandwagon by Ubuntu in the dark without an internet connection so that they have to run a long telephone wire from the living room, to their home office so they can connect to the wireless adsl modem/router through wired ethernet just so they won’t have to do any “creative file transferring” while desperately trying to fix their wireless connections and doing crazy $hit like throwing rhetorics at monitors. 
So if you are indeed wandering as to why your wireless network card does not work on Feisty while it works on Edgy versions of (K/X)Ubuntu, it is due to the native driver not working with the Linux Kernel Feisty Fawn uses.
How did I get things to “just work”?
See: How I got my Belkin f5d6001 wireless card running on Feisty Fawn
From: Fixed my Feisty Fawn Wireless Mess
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