Instalei o driver para windows e consegui fazer funcionar a internet no 10.04, via cabo é uma maravilha, com wireless esta sofrível, uso um roteador D-link 524, vejam alguns comandos:
araken@araken-laptop:~$ uname -r
2.6.32-21-generic
araken@araken-laptop:~$ sudo lshw -C network
*-network
description: Ethernet interface
product: RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller
vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:08:00.0
logical name: eth0
version: 03
serial: 00:24:e8:bd:ef:7c
size: 10MB/s
capacity: 1GB/s
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress msix vpd bus_master cap_list rom ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd 1000bt 1000bt-fd autonegotiation
configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=r8169 driverversion=2.3LK-NAPI duplex=half latency=0 link=no multicast=yes port=MII speed=10MB/s
resources: irq:31 ioport:4000(size=256) memory:fe004000-fe004fff(prefetchable) memory:fe000000-fe003fff(prefetchable) memory:fe020000-fe03ffff(prefetchable)
*-network
description: Wireless interface
product: Wireless WiFi Link 5100
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:0e:00.0
logical name: wlan0
version: 00
serial: 00:24:d6:28:6e:1a
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=iwlagn ip=192.168.0.110 latency=0 multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11abgn
resources: irq:33 memory:f6000000-f6001fff
Obs: No W7 está the flash com wireless