Hi , there has been reports on slax forum that using windows (*.inf) driver in combination with ndiswrapper may be successful http://www.slax.org/modules.php?action=detail&id=927 (this may be pre-packaged for speedstream 5200 not sure) please confirm && feedback needed. Are you positive ubuntu 7.10 or 7.04 were operational using Usb conection? you may easily confirm that too ;) they have 2.6.20 and 2.6.22 kernels (and fairly new nddiswrapper-s 1.38 and 1.45 ) Live CD is stiill obtainable HERE: http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/releases/