I have an old wireless adaptor that I used to use in Ubuntu until it seemed like it was no longer supported, I can't remember exactly when, but think it was around 10.10 Maverick.

I have just dug it out as my children's laptop wireless card has gone kaput.

My old usb wireless card is not seen by Network-Manager.

Doing lsusb it shows:

Bus 002 Device 003: ID 1435:0427 Wistron NeWeb UR054g 802.11g Wireless Adapter [Intersil ISL3887]

This link would suggest that the device is still supported by the Linux kernel

This link provides instructions for enabling the device in Debian systems

Is there a way I can get it to work in Ubuntu 12.04 32bit?

P.S. I have tried sudo apt-get install linux-backports-modules-cw-3.6-precise-genericwithout luck

result of dmesg|grep p54

[   22.706862] p54common: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_free_hw

[   22.706870] p54common: Unknown symbol ieee80211_free_hw (err -22)

[   22.706876] p54common: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_alloc_hw

[   22.706879] p54common: Unknown symbol ieee80211_alloc_hw (err -22)

[   22.706887] p54common: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_beacon_loss

[   22.706890] p54common: Unknown symbol ieee80211_beacon_loss (err -22)

[   22.706909] p54common: disagrees about version of symbol regulatory_hint

[   22.706912] p54common: Unknown symbol regulatory_hint (err -22)

[   22.706921] p54common: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_register_hw

[   22.706923] p54common: Unknown symbol ieee80211_register_hw (err -22)

[   22.706938] p54common: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_get_hdrlen_from_skb

[   22.706941] p54common: Unknown symbol ieee80211_get_hdrlen_from_skb (err -22)

[   22.706950] p54common: disagrees about version of symbol __ieee80211_get_radio_led_name

[   22.706953] p54common: Unknown symbol __ieee80211_get_radio_led_name (err -22)

[   22.706964] p54common: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_wake_queue

[   22.706967] p54common: Unknown symbol ieee80211_wake_queue (err -22)

[   22.706977] p54common: disagrees about version of symbol __ieee80211_get_tx_led_name

[   22.706980] p54common: Unknown symbol __ieee80211_get_tx_led_name (err -22)

[   22.706992] p54common: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_tx_status_irqsafe

[   22.706994] p54common: Unknown symbol ieee80211_tx_status_irqsafe (err -22)

[   22.707005] p54common: disagrees about version of symbol wiphy_rfkill_set_hw_state

[   22.707008] p54common: Unknown symbol wiphy_rfkill_set_hw_state (err -22)

[   22.707020] p54common: disagrees about version of symbol __ieee80211_get_rx_led_name

[   22.707023] p54common: Unknown symbol __ieee80211_get_rx_led_name (err -22)

[   22.707034] p54common: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_queue_delayed_work

[   22.707037] p54common: Unknown symbol ieee80211_queue_delayed_work (err -22)

[   22.707064] p54common: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_stop_queue

[   22.707067] p54common: Unknown symbol ieee80211_stop_queue (err -22)

[   22.707074] p54common: disagrees about version of symbol __ieee80211_get_assoc_led_name

[   22.707077] p54common: Unknown symbol __ieee80211_get_assoc_led_name (err -22)

[   22.707090] p54common: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_unregister_hw

[   22.707093] p54common: Unknown symbol ieee80211_unregister_hw (err -22)

[   22.707098] p54common: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_beacon_get_tim

[   22.707101] p54common: Unknown symbol ieee80211_beacon_get_tim (err -22)

[   22.707118] p54common: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_rx_irqsafe

[   22.707121] p54common: Unknown symbol ieee80211_rx_irqsafe (err -22)