Thanks. This initally was a licensing issue, Ubuntu had to split the firmware into a seperate package that's not being installed by default.
I believe there's some functionality in update-notifier that's supposed to notify the user when a device requires non-free firmware (and offer to manually install it). But that didn't happen in my case (with a similar device that requires the same firmware, on a Natty system).
Thanks. This initally was a licensing issue, Ubuntu had to split the firmware into a seperate package that's not being installed by default.
I believe there's some functionality in update-notifier that's supposed to notify the user when a device requires non-free firmware (and offer to manually install it). But that didn't happen in my case (with a similar device that requires the same firmware, on a Natty system).