Weird Wireless Woes Part 3

Well now that the first and second attempts at replacing wireless functionality in the laptop have failed, I gave it yet another try. My rationale this time was to buy one that used a different linux driver to work, and what could be more different than the Broadcom driver. I would then live in ndiswrapper land or bcm land. One or the other. So I bought this adapter by LevelOne, partly because I thought it was a Broadcom chip and partly because there was a $10 rebate at the time that effectively made it cost $5. How could you pass that up?

So I get it and what do you know it works! So it seems all is well. I was unsure at first because I only tried it once, then I tried it later on and it continues to work. It's using the RealTek 8187 driver.

Well that is until I upgraded to Ubuntu Intrepid, which is a whole other post. basically at this very moment it does not work anymore, or at least it appears not to. it still works on the same laptop on the vista partition so it can't be the usb stick itself, but who wants to use vista (actually I don't think Vista is bad, ssshh don't tell anyone, it's not great either but it'll grow on you when you're not looking) Especially considering the fact that it worked completely before the upgrade, it worked completely during the upgrade (when I explain how I upgraded, it'll seem even weirder) and after a reboot it doesn't, boggles my mind.